The foliage was certainly impressive.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
A Walk Around Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – Fall Colors around the grave stones
A Walk Around Sleepy Hollow Cemetery – Overview
Continuing with posts featuring Fall colors we come to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, NY. This cemetery is near to our house in Briarcliff Manor, NY so I’ve been there many times. I often go in Winter because they reliably clear they snow and I can walk the dog there when other trails are snow covered.
However, I can’t ever recall being there in Fall.
Above – This statue is part of the impressive Delavan memorial. There are at least four more statues around the base of the column.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
2019 Favorites – Black and White
As we come to the end of another year it’s time for me to go through my annual ritual of picking a few (actually 12) of my favorite pictures from 2018, starting with black and white. This year 9 of the 12 pictures are from film cameras.
A visit to Kingston – Old Dutch Church
Formally organized in 1659, Kingston’s Old Dutch Church is one of the oldest continuously existing congregations in the country. Its current building, the fifth, dates back to 1852. The surrounding churchyard contains gravestones dating back to 1710. Approx. 70 Revolutionary War soldiers are buried there. This elaborate monument marks the burial place of George Clinton, New York’s first governor, and vice president under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Across the street is the site of the original courthouse where the Constitution of New York State was written and adopted on April 20, 1777. New York’s first elected governor, George Clinton took the oath of office there, and the first State Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice, John Jay convened there.
The site is now occupied by the current Ulster County Courthouse built in 1818. Here Sojourner Truth, the famous abolitionist won her son’s freedom from slavery in Alabama.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.
A visit to Fishkill – Rombout Rural Cemetery
“In 1747, a church was built on an acre of land donated by Jacobus Terbos, ‘on condition that the church be organized with the order of the Kirk of Scotland.’ Three decades later, during the American Revolution the church and the nearby, “First Academy” were used by the Continental Army as a hospital for those who had contracted small pox at the Fishkill Encampment. It was noted that the soldiers who stayed at the church during the wintertime ripped the siding from it to burn for heat. Following the wars end, the church was rebuilt out of sand and limestone. In 1866 the rebuilt church burned and was never reconstructed. ” (Rombout Rural Cemetery).
This is what we came to see: the Marquis de Lafayette monument. Note that this is not a grave. Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette is buried next to his wife at Paris’ Picpus Cemetery. To carry out his wish to be buried in both American and French soil, his son covered his coffin with dirt taken from Bunker Hill. .
Another “winged head” (See: A visit to Fishkill – First Reformed Church of Fishkill – Winged Heads), this one more elaborate than most.
I have so far not been able to find any additional information on General Van Wyck.
Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.