erie street vandals

Cleveland's oldest cemetery is Erie Street Cemetery. 'Erie Street' is the 19th century name for 'East Ninth'. The arched entrance is across the street from the Indians' baseball park. The back entrance is on E. 14th. People jog through, and use the path that bisects the rectangular plot as a path between the two streets. Sometime during the Labor Day weekend, many headstones and monuments were toppled, some next to the fence at E.14th.

Some only fell, others broke. One can see how they were laid in place. Most of the stones were pushed so the inscriptions hit the grass and ground.

The hole in the foreground is a rabbit hole. I saw the rabbit, he retreated before i could photograph him.

Decoration Day at Garfield's Monument

shoe tree

It is rumoured, and sometimes denied, of the existence of a shoe tree in Cleveland's prestige burial grounds. I am not sure of its history, or origin story, or purpose of other than being a curiosity. In winter the edge trees are barren, and it is slightly discernible that there are objects decorating some fir trees.  The little sign reading 'closed area' signals something is there, and you are not wanted to go there.

 A foto cannot isolate one tree, a close up shot of the several shoes is a better.