Mill Brook as it winds through Meadow Brook Park on its way to the Lower Mystic Lake.
October 03, 2013.
Lazy River
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Squirrel of a Different Color
A black squirrel in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
October 03, 2013.
Cemetery Road
An autumn scene in Mouth Pleasant Cemetery.
November 2, 2013.
Wait
A gravestone in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
November 2, 2013.
Rideout
A gravestone in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
November 2, 2013.
No. 5
The mausoleum of Benjamin Locke in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
October 3, 2013.
Leafy Path
A leaf lined road in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
October 09, 2012.
Look Out, Wyman!
One of two cannons at a plot in Mount Pleasant Cemetery where lies the body of Robert Grady, an artilleryman during the Spanish-American war.
October 9, 2012.
Woman in Red
A woman in red tends the gravesite of her husband in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. May 18, 2012.
Pleasant Bench
A memorial bench in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. September 19, 2011.
Amphora
A decorative stone amphora sits atop a plot marker at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. September 19, 2011.
Mill Brook at Mount Pleasant
Mill Brook runs through Mount Pleasant Cemetery to get to the Lower Mystic Lake. September 19, 2011.
Pillar
A monument stands brilliantly white (as do the houses behind it) in the afternoon sun at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. September, 19, 2011.
Receiving Vault
The one hundred and seven year-old, and quite ominous looking, receiving vault at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. September 19, 2011.
Decorations
Decorations on headstones at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. September 19, 2011.
Blanchard
The Blanchard plot resting in the snow at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. January 6, 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.
“…Slept like a log.”
The headstone of Nina Winn at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Her diaries from over 100 years ago are transcribed on the Arlington List each day, giving 21st Century Arlingtonians a glimpse of the past. The title of this post comes from Ms. Winn's diary of October 21, 1907: "Such a dear room in birds eye maple to sleep in & slept like a log." January 6, 2010.
Fall at Mount Pleasant Cemetery
The leaves just beginning to change on the trees in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. September 29, 2010.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
A view of Mount Pleasant Cemetery on September 29, 2010.
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