March 4, 2019
Countless cemeteries in Detroit follow the model of L.A’.s “happy cemetery”
The “memorial park” cemetery was created from whole cloth by a California salesman. An interview with his grand-nephew.
March 4, 2019
The “memorial park” cemetery was created from whole cloth by a California salesman. An interview with his grand-nephew.
August 22, 2016
This post is part of my ongoing, slow-going effort to visit every cemetery in Detroit. To give you a sense of how slow-going this effort is, I took these photos of Grand Lawn two summers ago. Time marches on. So does this project.
November 17, 2013
Detroit’s other oldest Catholic cemetery is full of giant religious statuary and beautiful, haunting porcelain gravestone portraits.
August 5, 2013
A graveyard grotto built in 1881 was once reputed to have healing powers.
July 11, 2013
Romanian arch priests, Christmas tree smugglers, the first female cemetery commissioner and the only Detroit mayor to be recalled from office converge on this Woodward Avenue cemetery.
January 18, 2013
Adorable! Beautiful! And a little bit morbid.
September 14, 2012
A cemetery founded for victims of an axe murderer in 1825.
May 9, 2012
Visiting the grave of Alexander Macomb, hero of the Battle of Plattsburgh, namesake of Wayne County, painter, playwright, son of a swindler, and decorated early Detroiter.
September 30, 2011
Old, beautiful, mysterious and open to the public twice a year.
September 13, 2011
No joke: It has been really hard to start writing again.
May 26, 2011
Images of the oldest cemetery in New Orleans.
March 30, 2011
It’s not the likeliest place for a hallowed memorial to a decorated officer of the Revolutionary War. But here he lies, along growly old Jos. Campau, across the street from an L.A. Insurance.
November 23, 2010
Roseland Park Cemetery was organized in 1906. Located along the swiftly developing Woodward Corridor, it was easily accessible by trolley, but far enough away from the central city’s grime and noise to be respectable. A classy, modern place for people of means to ship out to upon their departure from mortal coil.