New England Oddities

Mt. Auburn Cemetery

Founded in 1831, Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts is considered to be America’s first garden-style cemetery, with plots and stones arranged amongst landscaped hills, rather than in the rigid lines found in churchyards of prior periods. The garden style cemetery emphasizes peaceful rest, rather than sorrow, and represented society’s changing attitudes toward death and the afterlife.

This is one of the largest and most elaborate cemeteries we have had the chance to visit, and those of you who may have visited this site before know that we’ve seen many!  One could walk for days and not see everything there is to see, as the cemetery covers around 175 acres and contains over 10 miles of roads.  In addition to beautiful monuments and chapels, Mt. Auburn is also famous for it’s 700 varieties of trees and numerous species of birds.

Photography by Katie Harper:

 

Photography by Chris Kwarciany:

 

The New England Oddities Photography Meetup – Member Photos!

The New England Oddities Photography Meetup has been out to some awesome spots so far this Summer, and I thought it was time we shared more member photos. If you like what you see here, please support the photographers by visiting their sites. As always, click any photo to view full size.


Celia Chan – Celia Chan’s Blog
The Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts

Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

Heather Katsoulis – HLKphoto.com
Old Newgate Prison in Granby, Connecticut

 

Steven Eazarsky – Flickr, Myspace
Old Newgate Prison in Granby, Connecticut

 

Felipe Lopez – Email
Old Newgate Prison in Granby, Connecticut

 

The Springfield Cemetery Walk

On Sunday, March 22nd, several members of the New England Oddities Photography Meetup assembled for our very first photography outing! The Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, Massachusetts has always been one of my favorite cemeteries, as frequent readers of this site can certainly attest. This beautiful, secluded spot right in the middle of the city spans generations, containing Springfield’s oldest stones as well as many recent monuments. The photographers who accompanied us certainly didn’t disappoint; a sample of their work is below.




Heather Katsoulis, HLKphoto.com

Susan Meagher, The Northeast Spectral Science Society

Chris Kwarciany, New England Oddities’ resident historian

And, finally, two of mine

Please feel free to leave comments for our guest photographers, or visit their personal sites. If you would like to explore New England with us, hit the link below and join the New England Oddities Photography Meetup!

This Week’s Best Photos – Special Edition

Welcome to a special edition of This Week’s Best Photos!  Chris and I have been extra-busy lately trying to launch our new paranormal research group (more details to come on that later), so we haven’t been keeping up with the photos here.  But we are going to make it up to you with one massive photo post, encompassing all the photo sessions we haven’t yet published. This edition of This Weeks Best Photos includes all our best from the last two months.

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Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, Massachusetts

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