Rec | LOOKING UP THE PEOPLE ON HEADSTONES AT CEMETERIES

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LOOKING UP THE PEOPLE ON HEADSTONES AT CEMETERIES

I had to go to Greenwood Cemetery for a class last semester, and many famous people like Leonard Bernstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat are buried there, but I stumbled upon this woman’s grave that read “FORTUNATE DESPERATE TRUSTFUL” and I was so upset by the idea of someone putting desperate on my grave that I had to look her up. her name was Eleonora Duse, apparently she was often known as just Duse (so chic), she was an amazing Italian actress, muse, and, importantly, was involved in numerous lesbian love affairs. I think it’s in many ways much more respectful to learn about the people you pass by, rather than just letting them go on unacknowledged and unknown.

@gabbylinder

4d ago

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@cl0e

One of the best places in the world

3d ago

@puck-oberon

That reminds me of memorial benches in Regent’s Park. A bench dedicated to a woman (can’t remember her name) had a plaque inscribed with a quote by Wilde: “But strange that I was not told that the brain can hold, in a tiny ivory cell, God's heaven and hell” Made me wonder who she was and what she meant to the person who had that bench put

3d ago

@jwalk999

findagrave.com has a lot of family history there, people can leave notes for their loved ones

3d ago

@rueispunk

an angel gained its wings, icon

4d ago

@raven87

I want to do this at the cemetery by my college, Crown Hill. I’ve been there once before, but only for a quick tour

4d ago

@anna_begins

I do this with old letters I find at antique stores! I love learning about peoples' lives and not letting them be forgotten. I once found an old letter and I managed to find a whole recording of the recipient and her husband talking about their lives online, it was so cool

4d ago

@taterhole

Find a grave is the most GOATed website I find myself on rabbit holes there all the time

4d ago

@SilenceDoGood

amazing rec

4d ago

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