Posts in Tag: Famous cemeteries
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Lincoln Home and Tomb in Springfield, Illinois
As Alison and I continue our journey back to Nova Scotia from Arizona, we have just a few more stops to make. Our last one was at Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis, Missouri. Our next will be in the Illinois state capital city of Springfield where we will have a guided tour of […]
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Tombstone – Deadliest Town in the West
This is my tenth and final post from a November, 2024 trip to Arizona and it will feature one of the most famous and deadly towns in the American West, the very aptly named Tombstone. In the last post we visited the truly amazing pinnacle rock formations of Chiricahua National Monument. Aside from being a […]
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Montparnasse Cemetery – A Visit by the Maritime Explorer
Paris has many cemeteries, but three are generally reckoned to be genuine tourist destinations. In spring 2015 I stayed in an apartment overlooking Montmartre Cemetery and wrote this post about my visit. Later I visited Pere Lachaise Cemetery with guide David Burke and wrote this post. Early this spring of 2016 I returned to Paris […]