A detail of what looks to be a Buddhist temple bell from China hanging in a small display outside St. Anne's Chapel. August 31, 2010.
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Prince Hall Cemetery in Winter
A shot of the Prince Hall Cemetery, undisturbed since the first snow of winter. January 25, 2011.
Here is the first picture of the cemetery as it appeared on this blog back on October 12, 2010.
Grand Old Rag
An American flag, one that presumably once decorated the grave of a veteran, impaled on the rusty, broken fence of Saint Paul Cemetery. January 5, 2011.
“Ah! it sent to yonder graveyard many a once stout, noble form.”
General Nelson Monroe was a veteran of the Civil and Mexican-American Wars. In 1893, he published a book of “reminiscences of the days of dark secession 1861 and 1865″ entitled The Grand Army Button: A Souvenir. It can be viewed in full at archives.org.
The finale of the book is a poem called “The Dead Line” at Libby Prison about the horrors of internment at the Confederate Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. It can be read here.
The inscription on the back of the monument can be viewed at Pictures of Arlington’s facebook page.
The grave of author, poet, and most notably, soldier, General Nelson Monroe in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. January 6, 2011.
Est. 1898
The façade of the Decatur Market on Decatur Street at its intersection with North Union. January 25, 2011.
Lower Mystic Lake
A panorama of the Lower Mystic Lake at sunset on January 25, 2011.
Bicentennial Park
The American flag flies in the setting sun over the stones of Bicentennial Park, located on the Arlington/Cambridge border. January 5, 2011.
Police Memorial
A memorial outside the Community Safety Building those police who have died while performing their duty. July 22, 2010.
Arlington From Afar
Arlington can be seen on the horizon from the tower in Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge/Watertown.) On the left hill is the Park Avenue water tower and one can easily see the green water tower of Turkey Hill. At right, in the foreground, Bigelow Chapel is nestled in the trees of Mount Auburn Cemetery, and also to the right, almost at the edge of the frame, is the steeple of the Pleasant Street Congregational Church. April 22, 2010.
