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...Like sardines released from a can, we jumped out of the car. Inside the cemetery??s walls, the silence was so thick that it bounced off the rows of tombs stacked like chests of drawers (a particularly creepy image when you envision folded socks and underwear stuffed in there with the dead people). The wind whispered gently in the background—in Italian of course—and as I read the names chiseled into the tomb’s façades, Pavarotti sung a silent opera in my head. I roamed the aisles wondering what...
...ornaments? Icicle lights? Slow drives around suburban neighborhoods just to see another inflatable Christmas character? Instead, check out these area nativity scenes and get your faith on! One of the most impressive crèches is adjacent to the city hall in Quincy, Mass. On the grounds of Hancock Cemetery??where 69 revolutionary war soldiers, former Harvard University president Leonard Hoar, and generations of the Adams and Quincy families are buried—a huge manger with a near-life-size replication of the Holy Night dominates the scene. Complete with real straw, a particularly cheerful baby Jesus...
...well, non-dead. Over the years, the cemetery has become the home turf for some of New England’s best and brightest, from Massachusetts senator and vocal abolitionist Charles Sumner to 19th century landscape painter Winslow Homer. But even with all those skeletons lurking below, the cemetery??s well-manicured lawns and gravestones make the place more sedate than scary. But it’s still the perfect destination for a late fall Halloween stroll. And if you’re so inclined, the online birding journal “Bird Observer” says that...
...using video to document the site, reviews the day’s footage on an LCD screen. The camera follows a trail of red-orange fungus that streaks across his tree. He is working in what he calls “the cemetery of the cemetery??—where gardeners dispose of organic waste. “I almost got hit today,” he says of the rain of tree branches over the area...
Dumala’s themes and figures border on the grotesque—a dripping tongue hanging out of a window, a girl with beetles for eyes, a line of shadowy people walking under a solitary rain cloud, clocks embedded in the graves in a cemetery??and the Kafkaesque: Indeed, one of Dumala’s fake film “advertisements” proclaims “Miniature Film Studio Presents a Piotr Dumala Film: Franz Kafka.” All of the figures in Dumala’s drawings display a unique, fascinating dynamism and animation...
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