Sleepy Hollow

[lizziebelle]

Authors Ridge, originally uploaded by Lizzie~Belle.

It stopped raining much earlier than expected today, so I started thinking about where I'd like to go. I tooled around Google maps for a bit, deciding on Minuteman State Park in Concord. In looking at the directions, I noticed a place called Sleepy Hollow Cemetery nearby, and looked it up. Whoa! I immediately changed my mind and went there instead. You know how I love old cemeteries!

This one is especially neat in that several famous, local authors are buried there. They're all in a spot called Authors Ridge, which is easy to find due to all the signs on the way in.

The first one on the path is Thoreau, with all his family. There were lots of offerings left by his stone, including pens and stones with notes on them.



On the left is the Hawthorne family, including dear Nathaniel. His was behind a chain , so there were fewer offerings.



Next up was the Alcott family. Louisa May had several pens & pencils left by her stone, as well as several pennies.



Ralph Waldo Emerson has an impressive stone monument, with lots of pennies and stones left on it.



There wasn't much statuary, but there was a lovely, huge memorial to three brothers killed in the Civil War, done by Daniel Chester French (who is also buried there, but I didn't find his grave).



Sleepy Hollow is a lovely old cemetery; I will definitely be going back. There was a path going off into the woods I'd love to explore.

I'll just have to save Minuteman for later in the fall!

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Wonderful photos! I was surprised, and touched, by how modest some of the memorials are...

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

It's those stoic New Englanders. ;)

Thanks!