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Category Archives: Cemetery

Autumn at Graceland Cemetery

Photo by Mike Boehmer – Feel free to use images with links and credit – no commercial use without permission. “Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed...

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Work hard and be nice to people

// “The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people...

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Life Meets Death

// Photo by Mike Boehmer – Feel free to use images with links and credit – no commercial use without permission. “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” -Marie Curie

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Eternal Silence

Photo by Mike Boehmer – Feel free to use images with links and credit – no commercial use without permission. This statue has to win the award for the most creepy grave marker at Graceland. The statue is called “Eternal Silence” and was created by sculptor Lorado Taft. “Eternal Silence” marks the plot of Chicago...

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The Schoenhofen Tomb

Photo by Mike Boehmer – Feel free to use images with links and credit – no commercial use without permission. Photo by Annie Elmer – Feel free to use images with links and credit – no commercial use without permission. One of Graceland Cemetery’s more interesting grave markers is that of Peter Schoenhofen, who owned...

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