Memory: The Seven Ages of Man

The Kauffmann Memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery.

Is Jesus an Illusion?

 

Well ... this one is!

The Most Insignificant Justice

Gabriel Duvall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, built Marietta in 1812, and died here in  1844.

L'Enfant was buried here

This cenotaph in the back yard of the Pallotine Seminary at Green Hill in Chillum, Maryland, marks the spot where Pierre L'Enfant was buried in 1825.

Laugh and the World Laughs With You....

John A. Joyce stole a poem and took it to his grave.

Grief: The Arsenal Fire of 1864

Lot Flannery's statue of "Grief" atop the Arsenal Fire Monument
at Congressional Cemetery

The Empty Tomb and the Lost Monument

Gathland State Park, on the top of South Mountain near Burkittsville, Maryland
 

Mary Hall: The Madam on the Mall

 Mary Ann Hall ran the largest whorehouse in Washington, DC, during the Civil War.

The Boy Martyrs of Baltimore

The Wells and McComas Monument at East Monument, and Aisquith Streets (Ashland Square) in Baltimore

Robert S. "Beau" Hickman -- King of the Bummers

This thin marble headstone in Congressional Cemetery, in Southeast DC, marks the final resting place of Beau Hickman.

The Tulip Disaster

November 11, 1864

Virginia Hensley [Patsy Cline]

 608 Kent Street in Winchester, Virginia

Can I Die on Your Porch?

William D. Scott at Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church
in Gaithersburg Maryland 

William D. Scott was a 21-year-old Confederate cavalryman from Greebrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). When the Cloppers found him wounded on their porch in 1864, he asked, "Can I die on your porch?".

Dr. Beanes' Grave

Upper Marlboro

Dr. William Beanes was an important if small player in the pageant of the Star-Spangled Banner.

Stonewall Jackson's Arm

 at Ellwood

Arm of Stonewall Jackson, May 3, 1863

The Queen of the Corporate Jungle

- Evelyn Y. Davis -

Queen of the Corporate Jungle

1929 --- Forever

Becky Phipps and the Battle of the Ice Mound

The Next-to-Last Battle of the War of 1812

Confederate Monument

at Grace Episcopal Church, Silver Spring

The Grave of Little Orphant Annie

  Greenfield, Indiana

Mary the Mother of Washington

This monument on Washington Street in Fredericksburg, VA, was erected in 1893-94 by two women's organizations, The Fredericksburg Mary Washington Monument Association and the The National Mary Washington Memorial Association. It marks the grave of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother.