The first stop on my memory lane tour is Colgate University, where I spent a beer-drenched year enjoying football games and fraternity parties. The Brawny Sherpa and I set off on the scenic route from Westchester to Madison County—the only option available, and a good one. Embarking on a gray Wednesday, we take an easy…
Category: United States
On Going Back: Dreams Change; Do Memories, Too?
Going back to a college town for the first time in decades, the Bashful Adventurer is surprised by her memories and their accuracy.
The Bright Side of Death
I’ve never really understood the American method of mourning, kicking off with a somber viewing followed by an even more somber funeral. Let’s all wear our sad faces along with the black. This approach seems so incongruous to me given the religion it tends to be cloaked in. After death, heaven. If all of us…
Ghostly Fiction in Sleepy Hollow
Nothing becomes October better than the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. Even if you can’t make a performance of story teller Jonathan Kruk as he brings Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow alive, a walk through the graveyard alone will give a visitor some seasonal chills. See Washington Irving’s grave, admire the dramatic…
An Unanticipated Pet Cemetery in Newport, RI
One place the Bashful Adventurer does not expect to find a pet cemetery is at the Rosecliff mansion in Newport, RI.
Graveyards in October: Forgotten in Pleasantville?
The overgrowth of this graveyard in Pleasantville, N.Y. contrasts with its proximity to a well-traveled road. What was probably a peaceful resting place stands still as progress comes to it on a road named Broadway. Should we pretend not to see, or embrace the past? —Lori Tripoli Are you interested in graveyards in Westchester County,…
History in the West Point Graveyard
We go to West Point to watch the football games, but we take a quick walk through the cemetery there on the way back to our car. Here are reminders of the real purpose of this place, and the outcomes of that purpose. Warriors more current and remote are here, and some of their families,…
Graveyard Art in Garrison NY: The Strife Is Over
The Bashful Adventurer finds some intriguing graveyard art at a graveyard at St. Philip’s Church in the Highlands in Garrison, NY.
Sleepy Hollow: A Cemetery Both Literary and Spiritual
The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in what was once known as North Tarrytown, N.Y. proves to be both literary and spiritual.
Skeletons + Clear Skies = Strange Adventure
There is nothing like a wholesome day at an amusement park all decked out for Halloween to make one wonder about the future of civilization. A beautiful, sunny fall day combined with a theme park dressed for frightening makes for the strangest of adventures at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J. At night, skeletons…