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| Main gate to Cedar Hill Cemetery. |
The neat thing for me was that it was a FREE even for me because of the Let's Go Arts donation I made in lieu of United Way at work last Fall. And at the check-in for the tour, they offered me a FREE hardback book about the landscape architect who designed Cedar Hill. Keeping my son's advice about not adding to my clutter collection, I politely declined (besides, I didn't want to carry around a book for 90 minutes).
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| I think I must be somewhere in this picture but I can't find me. |
Although Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) is buried in Elmira, NY (I wish I would've remembered that when I was there in February), many of his Hartford companions & cohorts are interred (i.e., buried) at Cedar Hill Cemetery. The tour was conducted by Steve Courtney, a former reporter who has written and lectured about Mark Twain/Sam Clemens.
The tour rambled around the cemetery and stopped at the graves of such figures as:
There were more but I didn't write them down. However, I enjoyed the walk and the history. I plan to return and explore more of the cemetery as well as attend future tours.
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Links:
http://www.cedarhillcemetery.org
https://www.marktwainhouse.org/man/biography_main.php
http://www.fingerpostproductions.com/nook_farm/index.html
http://www.josephhopkinstwichell.com/bio.php
http://cedarhillfoundation.org/notable-residents/isabella-beecher-hooker
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Links:
http://www.cedarhillcemetery.org
https://www.marktwainhouse.org/man/biography_main.php
http://www.fingerpostproductions.com/nook_farm/index.html
http://www.josephhopkinstwichell.com/bio.php
http://cedarhillfoundation.org/notable-residents/isabella-beecher-hooker
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Written Friday November 27, 2015 (better late than never).
