Imagine just this moment in time you’re dying of consumption in the High Plains of Texas. It’s August 1906, when the air is at its height of being hot, dry and stale. There might be an occasional breeze, but it does nothing to cool you. You’re coughing up blood mixed with phlegm because your lungs…
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Haunting Photograph of Ethel
In a Llano Estacado cemetery, a lone tombstone remains hauntingly untouched by time and from the elements of nature and man. It’s rare when you come across a perfectly decades old intact tombstone and photo ceramic gravestone marker in this region. Often the photos are damaged by high winds carrying sand and dirt or…
Read MoreThe Crying Angel
Of all the cemetery angels I have come across this one haunts me. As I wander around a cemetery I never know what I will encounter along my path. I saw this tall angel at a distance and started walking towards it. When I reached her – my breath was stilled as I paused…
Read MoreA Monk’s Cross
It was misting the day I walked this hillside cemetery beholding priests’ graves at Subiaco Abbey in Subiaco, Arkansas. I was searching for one grave in particular Father Conrad Herda’s grave. Herda was the priest who built the cemetery and is one of the priests I have been researching for the Holy Family Church in…
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Forgotten Winds 