Wednesday, March 20, 2013

how this happen?

Brookmere is a smallish cemetery in an antebellum residential neighborhood of Cleveland Ohio. It is slightly more than three miles south by southwest of Public Square (exact down town). It is bordered by houses on small lots, and is on level ground on top of a quickly dropping valley of the Metropark that surrounds the Zoo. It is near a main road, but tucked away to be not seen. Along one fence are several yards filed with plastic children playground toys.

Indians had been here, and then Yankees from New York, and New England, and then a lot of Germans. People do not realise that German ancestry had been (perhaps still is) the most common one in the United States; but between the Kaiser and the Fuehrer, this has been quiet.
If you look carefully, you can see, that the main inscripted section of this monument has been inserted upside down. I have never rubbed an etching of a stone before, this one and one in Cleveland's Woodland Cemetery, i would like too. There is enough script beyond the Lebensdaten, that may be interesting, if it is decipherable. The dates that i could read were all XIXth century. 

I am not the first one to post a foto of this stone. The same stuff is interesting to most people who would be interested, and not just this. Any photographer that is interested in graveyard fotos, and walked this cemetery, would have taken at least one shot of this monument. Any urban fotographer strolling with camera in some other venue, would be attracted to certain "hey, look at this thing". On Cleveland's Public Square, there will be a foto of Tom Johnson, another of Moses Cleaveland, one of Old Stone Church, and probably some shot of the War for the Union monument. I take for this journal page, and a few others. Many of the subjects have been shot with better cameras, and posted on the internets by people before me. I have been discouraged to post some fotos, because i have seen the subjects already posted by others.

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