31-MAY-2010
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Notice the date: 1704. These grave markers mark the location of Easthampton, MA's olders graveyard....dating from pre-1700.
31-MAY-2010
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What's this? More May 13 1704 deaths? Yes, apparently there was some kind of mass killing as a total of six families, ages 2-42, lie here along with "a captain". The English and American flags suggest these families were victims of the tensions between England and it's Colony, although which side the settlers were on at the time is not known to me (I am researching).
31-MAY-2010
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I stumbled across this gravesite at the corner of Clapp and Fort Hill Road in Easthampton only because a vet contingent was blowing taps and giving a three-gun-solute at 7:00am on Memorial Day morning. This was the first of seven cemeteries they visited that morning.
The American Flag flys from a short pole commemorating the site.
I was on my way birding with only a 300mm lens to shoot this site...thus the somewhat unusual perspectives.
08-JUL-2008
JFK Memorial, Holy Cross Church, Holyoke, MA
Separation of Church and State? Not in Holyoke, MA. Here, the largest Roman Catholic Church in the city raised money, built, and dedicated a plaza to JFK following his death.
