New England Oddities

This Week’s Best Photos

Below is a selection of our best photos taken over the past week. Click to open full size. Beneath the photos you will find links to our full Flickr sets for these locations.

The gate at Woodland Cemetery in Granville, Massachusetts.

The Cooley family plot at Woodland Cemetery.

Woodland Cemetery.

Clover detail on a marble obelisk at Stepney Cemetery in Monroe, Connecticut.

Stone detail at Stepney Cemetery.

An intricately carved red sandstone marker at Ashley Cemetery in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

Blue late-afternoon skies over Ashley Cemetery.

A storm rolls in over Fairfield Hills Hospital in Newtown, Connecticut.

Closed and abandoned since 1995, Fairfield Hills begins to show its age.

A decaying entryway at Fairfield Hills.

An epitaph at Old Mundale Cemetery in Westfield, Massachusetts reads: “What is death but a perpetual sleep and that without dreams.”

Flags fly for Memorial Day at Granville Cemetery in Granville, Massachusetts.

Willow trees decorate this stone at Granville Cemetery.

Middle Farms Cemetery in Westfield, Massachusetts.

A cherub stands guard at Middle Farms Cemetery.

Another intricately carved red sandstone marker, this one at Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut.

An interesting marker at Union Cemetery.

Stone detail at Union Cemetery.

A tragic epitaph at Granville Center Cemetery in Granville, Massachusetts.

This week’s full photo sets on Flickr:
Ashley Cemetery – West Springfield, Massachusetts
Center Cemetery – Granville, Massachusetts
Fairfield Hills State Hospital – Newtown, Connecticut
Granville Cemetery – Granville, Massachusetts
Old Mundale Cemetery – Westfield, Massachusetts
Stepney Cemetery – Monroe, Connecticut
Union Cemetery – Easton, Connecticut
Woodland Cemetery – Granville, Massachusetts