This is the grave of Jackie Robinson. There isn't much point of doing a biography of Robinson here. He's so famous and his story is so well-known that I'd just be wasting my time. But a couple of points:...
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This the grave of John O'Hara. Born in 1905 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania to a well-off Irish-American family, O'Hara was a bit of an outsider in the elite circles his family.
This is the grave of John Hancock. Born in 1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts to a prosperous and slave owning family, Hancock's father died when he was 7, but he went.
This is the grave of Stefan Osusky. Born in 1889 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in what is today Slovakia, Osusky became a Slovak patriot from a young age and was kicked out of school in 1905 for his Slovak nationalism that flew in the face...
This is the grave of Edwin Drake. Born in 1819 in Greenville, New York, Drake grew up on farms in New York and Vermont. He wasn't too interested in doing.
This is the grave of Ephraim Bull. Born in 1806 in Boston, Bull was not destined for a life as an agricultural innovator. He was a city boy and was.
This is the future grave of B. Vithal Shetty. Yesterday, I wrote about what happens when you wander around cemeteries, seeing stories of interesting people. Well, sometimes you find yourself in cemeteries looking for someone and you see clumps of graves from immigrant communities. Now,...
This is the grave of Winston Edmunds. Sometimes, when you are wandering around a cemetery, you find a gravestone that speaks to you. This isn't so common anymore, because in.
This is the grave of George Pullman. Born in Brocton, New York in 1831, Pullman's father was a carpenter who achieved some renown for creating a machine to move buildings.
This is the grave of Traveller, the horse of the traitor Lee. Traveller was born in 1857 in Greenbrier County, Virginia, which is now part of West Virginia. He won several awards in show contests in his early life. In 1861, the South committed treason...
This is the grave of Dudley Moore. Born in London in 1935 to a working class family, Moore had physical aliments from his birth, resulting in his short height, a.
This is the grave of Henry David Thoreau. Born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts to a middling family and a pencil making father, Thoreau attended Harvard and found the experience.