Detail of Grant's tomb
I find the quote which adorns the exterior of Grant’s tomb refreshing. “Let us have peace” are the words which closed the President’s memoirs. For a man who served his country in war, his final wish strikes me as beautiful and timely.
My original post about the General Grant National Monument is here.
My book of cemetery travel essays -- Wish You Were Here: Cemetery Travel Adventures -- is coming out from Western Legends Press shortly.
Also coming soon is The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two, which I edited for Damnation Books. The book collects fiction, poetry, and site reports by 21 authors who spent four days in a haunted house.
For 10 years, I edited the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. Scribner collected my favorite essays into Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual.
You can follow my fascination with graveyards at CemeteryTravel.com. I also blog about writing at RedRoom.com.
I just discovered your blog and am quite pleased with what I have seen and read thus far. Good show!
I hope you’ll visit our website (bellamorte.net) to enjoy the fruits of our labour in exploring beautiful cemeteries and documenting them in words and photos.
Thanks so much for saying hello! You have a lovely site. You’ve inspired me to add a few more cemeteries to my “must-see” list.
Well, you’ve certainly visited a number of places that count as “Holy Grails” for us. Thanks for whetting our appetites in that regard and for your compliments on our site.
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