Cemeteries

CEMETERIES 

          Though this blog focuses on journals & photos of trips, I’ve noted that 3 venues stand out for offering photo ops. Previous posts have highlighted samples of “Gardens” & “Religious Sites.” Here I’ll present photos from some of the atmospheric cemeteries we’ve encountered on our travels. As with the gardens, churches, & mosques, I can’t always pinpoint where a photo was taken, but will indicate some of the sites. 

Local cemeteries:

My favorite & most frequent venue is nearby Albany Rural Cemetery, a beautiful & evocative place in every season: winter, 

 
spring

         

summer,

and especially fall. 

 

Other nearby sites are Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, another beautiful fall venue,

& the final resting place of the original "Uncle Sam" (a local meatpacker),

 

 

Saratoga National Cemetery, 

St. George's in the Schenectady Stockade, 

Fishkill Rural Cemetery,

and Old Stone Fort in Schoharie.

Some interesting headstones:

Other United States:

 

Maple Hill Cemetery next to our Barrows House B&B in Dorset VT.

Plymouth & Scituate MA (finding the grave of my ancestor, Matthew Gannett, in Men of Kent Cemetery).

New Orleans "City of the Dead" 

Charleston SC area 

City View Cemetery in Salem OR

Forest Lawn (LA) & along a road in the Midwest

                                                

Hawaii: St. Benedict's

















Europe & Iceland: 

St. Peter's in Salzburg

Jewish cemetery in Prague 

cemetery for WWII Allied soldiers near Arnhem, the Netherlands 

Norwegian cemetery near stave church

We came across a number of beautiful old (some very old) cemeteries in Ireland: Glendalough,

outside Kilkenny & an abbey in Timoleague, 

Rock of Cashel & a 5000-year-old portal tomb at Browne's Hill Dolmen, 

a pet cemetery in Mt. Usher Gardens & a megalithic tomb in the Burren.

Giverny, France, where Monet is buried. Beautiful porcelain flowers.

Memorial cemeteries at Normandy.

Reykjavik, Iceland













Australia and New Zealand: 

Beautiful memorials in Australia in include the ANZAC War Memorial in Sydney 

and the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. 

Similarly striking is the Auckland War Memorial in New Zealand.










South America: 

Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires

In memory of the "disappeared ones" from the "dirty war" of the 1970s & 1980s, by Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires