RSSTravel News – Newsletter for October 2, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
For solitude, try a history-infused walk in the woods at a pre-Civil War rural cemetery
Anyone for a picnic at the old cemetery?
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Atop an oak-shaded hill at Mount Hope Cemetery, an epitaph chiseled in Latin on Col. Nathaniel Rochester’s headstone whispers on the wind: “If you seek his monument, look around you.”
Mount Hope, America’s oldest municipal park-garden graveyard, is a refuge not only for the departed. Curious … Read more : For solitude, try a history-infused walk in the woods at a pre-Civil War rural cemetery.