Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The day after Halloween is All Saints Day, which in New Orleans is a big event as family members clean and paint their relatives graves. I'll miss this one, but I'll be there for next year. From my understanding, All Saints Day was created to supercede the Pagan holiday Halloween, and since it did not stop the Pagan sinners from celebrating, another day - All Souls Day was also created. Guess 2 holy days beats out 1 sinner day. If it was not for some sinning Catholic Virginians and the immigrating Irish, Halloween in America might not have lasted. All 4 images are from St. Louis #1 Cemetery, located just outside the French Quarter and across form the Iberville projects. In other words, travel with some company or a firearm as there is only one way in and one way out.This cemetery used to take up 4 blocks and now is contained in 1 block. No, of course we did not remove the tombs, we just build stuff over them. There are some Civil War generals here, a Voodoo Queen, Revolutionary soldiers, and one rich but died penniless creator of the game "craps". All images w/M6 TTL .58, 50/f2 Summicron, Kodak BW400 http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/zoeica/Travels/Cemeteries/ Chris Williams