But when Beck and her sister Riley arrive in Backravel, Arizona it’s clear that there’s something off about the town. There are no cars, no cemeteries, no churches. The town is a mix of dilapidated military structures and new, shiny buildings, all overseen by the town’s gleaming tre...
Justgoogle the imageswith me here for a second and let us all freak out together. I can’t even look at pictures of Petra without getting a tingly ancient creepy feeling—the city looks like something the dwarves would build inThe Lord of the Rings. Unknown to the Western world until 1812...
Each year tour guides ferry Jewish visitorsto Europe to learn about their heritage. Across Latvia, Spain, the Czech Republic, they visit synagogues and cemeteries, hear from scholars, see where Kafka was born. Within these groups, there is often what Kaiser calls a “memory-tourist,” who as...
on the north side, to St. Saviour’s Dock, the whole line of street – called in one part Pickle Herring Street, and in another Shad Thames – exhibits an uninterrupted series of wharves, warehouses, mills and factories, on both sides of the narrow and crowded roadway. The buildings on ...
Throughout the summer and into the fall, families huddled around open graves at Houston’s cemeteries, burying their boys. Trying to beat back her despair, Betty Cobble, the mother of one of the victims, returned to her job delivering flowers, only to find herself providing arrangements at fu...
But, after combing through VA records for all of its Arizona cemeteries and burials, I drew a blank. I widened it to a nationwide search (although it seemed supremely unlikely he had been taken back to his home state of Michigan) and the end result? He wasn’t there. Wherever Lowell ...
sides of the sea channel. There the echoes of the war still sound faintly, and whisper in the roadside towns, where you find visual reminders – statues of the great Ataturk, the cannons and flags, the plaques, and out on the peninsula, the battlefield sites and the great cemeteries. ...
(while there’s no proscription against it, I don’t photograph in cemeteries as a personal preference) where two visits are a must – once during the day, when the lantern hall is open, and again at night – where the lantern-lit stone pathways are astonishingly atmospheric and beautiful...
Later that evening via Facebook private message, Tony connected me withCatherine Wilson, a fellow researcher who lives in Memphis. Catherine and I clicked right away during a late night phone conversation and made plans to meet in the morning to visit some of the cemeteries that were on my ...