Mt. Hope Cemetery August 2011

A return visit to this wonderful cemetery in the wild north woods of Maine yielded some very nice results. But I'll let you be the judge of that:

Memorial to the Second Maine Infantry

Mary Ross, "The Loved One"

Mt. Hope in Bangor, Maine

It was a gorgeous fall day this past Columbus Day Weekend when Susie and I took a stroll through Mt. Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine. They claim to be the second oldest pastoral cemetery in the United States, after Mt. Auburn in Cambridge. We couldn't find Hannibal Hamlin -- the office is close don Saturday so we had to wander without a map. But it was a grand day to be out strolling through a large bit of New England history.

Mt. Hope in Bangor, Maine

Final resting place of Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's 1st VP), gangster Al Brady, and many other near-famous and infamous people, Mt. Hope claim's to be the second pastoral cemetery built in America (after eMt. Auburn in Cambridge, MA).