On Our Vacation

One of the interesting places we visited was the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.



On the hillside behind where this picture was taken, some of the greatest authors in the history of American Literature are buried. They all lived in the area near here. Walt Whitman lived here too, but he's not interred at this cemetary, so I won't make "Anonymous" fret by referring any more to a poet who might have been gay.

Here is Henry David Thoreau, one of my favorites (for the unaware, he wrote Walden, the book that the boys in Dead Poet's Society read and use)



Right next to him is Louisa May Alcott:



Then Ralph Waldo Emerson:



And lastly a little further along is Nathaniel Hawthorne:



How strange is it that some of the greatest writers in American history are all buried within 20 yards of each other, let alone in the same cemetary?