Graceland Cemetery in Chicago

Brenda Rossini

Description

Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago's most outstanding memorial grounds. It's like a little town with a private lake and mausoleums lining its streets. The funerary architecture is spectacular. Here lie Chicago's deceased: baseball players, boxers, ballerinas, fire victims, detectives, politicians, department store owners and inventors. They passed through nature and on to eternity but not without a pawky connection to Sherlock Holmes.

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 24 février 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781787050570
• Langue: English

Extrait

Graceland Cemetery in Chicago
A Sherlockian Walk Midst the Tombstones
Author and tour guide
Brenda Rossini




First edition published in 2014
This digital edition published in 2017 by
MX Publishing
335 Princess Park Manor, Royal Drive,
London, N11 3GX
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Digital edition converted and distributed by
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© Copyright 2014, 2017 Brenda Rossini
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All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and not of MX Publishing.
Cover design by Brian Belanger




To My Sherlockian Friends Past and Present




Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas



Information
GRACELAND : founded in 1860 upon 80 acres. Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris is 110 Acres. Graceland was built outside of the city because the Chicago Fire Dept. had health and safety concerns about shallow graves and cholera affecting water supply.
To the east, along the cemetery, the El train was erected, going south and north, bringing mourners to the gravesites with ease.
HERE DWELL ETERNALLY famous Chicagoans, from Indian fighters to Chicago politicians to veterans of foreign wars, boxers, civil rightists, and doomed victims. Farewell requiems are marked on stone and marble tombstones, mausoleums, and obelisks.
Among the many monument inscriptions, the wanderer will recognize Chicago streets and schools: Kinzie, Honore, Washburne, Larrabee, Loomis, Kimball, Whipple, Altgeld, Carpenter, Sherman.
Among the principal sculptors, but buried elsewhere, is Lorado Taft (1860-1936) - a famous “Prairie State” sculptor. He hired a team of women to assist with his sculptures - a team he called his “White Rabbits.”
Taft’s “Blackhawk Indian” statue stands in Oregon, Illinois. “Lincoln the Lawyer” is in Champaign/, Illinois. “Fountain of Time” is at the Midway Pleasance near the University of Chicago leaving this magnificent architectural footprint in 1920. “Fountain of the Great Lakes” sits at the Art Institute.




“There’s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew...It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it’s God’s own wind none the less. ”
His Last Bow



Part 1
PROCEED EAST FROM THE GRACELAND OFFI