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Erik Visits an American Grave (X)

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On January 14, 2016
Underneath this rock is buried Jacob Riis. A Danish immigrant, Riis became one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era, exposing the terrible conditions of immigrants and the urban poor in his extremely influential How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890. Particularly important...
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This is the grave of Gifford Pinchot. Like most Progressives, Gifford Pinchot's legacy is deeply complicated. The nation's first major forester, a process begun with his father felt terrible for all the damage he had caused to the American landscape, Pinchot fought to place some...
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I was driving through northwestern Connecticut yesterday. It was utterly lovely, with the leaves changing. An ideal bucolic American landscape. Among the nice places I drove through was the town of Sharon, near the New York border. But as I drove through, a horrible smell...

Running in Cemeteries

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On August 31, 2014
I find cemeteries pretty fascinating places for a number of reasons. First, I have a bit of a weird hobby of visiting the graves of random famous people from American history that interest me in some way. You can only imagine how much my wife...
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