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Often when I visit an unfamiliar community for work or vacation, I will pause during my stay to visit the local cemetery.\u00a0 These old burial grounds are representative of the collective history of a place, and they provide fascinating insight into era and geographically specific cultural norms, artistic values, ethnic influences, and community history.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0walk through these quiet places can be valuable for research or\u00a0\u00a0enjoyable strolling as one observes these surviving relics from an earlier generations.\u00a0 Depending on the pace of change in a town, the memorials\u00a0are often some of the last tangible links to the past.<\/p>\n

In New England, a region with plenty of fascinating graveyards, the central Vermont region has some particularly notable places.\u00a0 In Montpelier the spacious park-like setting of Green Mount Cemet<\/a>ery with its many shade trees and ornamental shrubs, has many memorials to catch one\u2019s gaze.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Nearby in Barre, the \u201cgranite capital of the world,\u201d is the Hope Cemetery<\/a>.\u00a0 It has to be one of the most remarkable for there are many finely sculptured memorials, a testimony to the areas skilled stone cutters and artisans.<\/p>\n

Here are a few photos I snapped while we vacationed in the area a few years ago.<\/p>\n

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The park setting of Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In Barre’s Hope Cemetery the lie size memorial for\u00a0Eli Corti. He was a gifted Italian carver.\u00a0At the age of thirty-four years he was shot in the Socialist building, following an argument between the socialists and anarchists.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In Hope Cemetery, Barre, VT. The memorial says Donati. The symbolism is interesting here. The man is smoking a cigarette and in the fashion of something like a pipe dream a woman’s head appears in the smoke.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In Montpelier’s Green Mount Cemetery. — a monument for Raymond H. Quero, 1929 – 1995. It reads: “Ray the cop: in service to others: Montpelier City Patrolman, diary cr\u00e8me operator, 1st Vermont State House, Security Officer, 1972 – 1995:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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