Monday Walk…Who do you know in Lakeview Cemetery?

Lakeview Cemetery on the east side of Cleveland is a beautiful, tranquil spot as well as home to some famous (dead) people. When we lived in Cleveland’s east side, we enjoyed visiting there, especially in spring when daffodils lined some of the slopes. As it’s right next to Little Italy, any visit could include some tasty treats as well.

Here are just a few of the tombstones of people buried there. Perhaps you know of some of them. Crime and cartoon aficionados will recognize this model for Dick Tracy.

I admit it I had no idea who was buried here but I made an abrupt turn when I saw a tombstone resembling a juke box! What amazing detail!

Thankfully I checked the other side and found out who was honored in such a rock-and-roll way.

Finally a much more famous resident with a much less interesting monument…

So who do you know?

Jo’s Monday Walk 6.12.23

Knee high by the Fourth of July

In the Midwest, “Knee high by the Fourth of July” indicates how farmers hope their corn is performing. Corn is a big part of the farming economy, a fact acknowledged by the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, my overnight stop on the trip from Naperville to Sheridan, Wyoming.  As soon as I checked in to my motel, I went to see the theme for this year.

1892 marked the first year of the Corn Palace’s existence. The current building is the third palace, but every year the current year’s theme is wrought in naturally colored corn and other grains as well as native grasses. Some of the early themes were amazingly elaborate, starting with the very first one in 1892.  Inside is an arena used for basketball, graduations, and all sorts of other events.  When a friend and I stopped some years ago, she thought it was going to be, pardon the pun, corny.  But she thoroughly enjoyed and admired it, as do half a million visitors a year.

This year, rock and roll is featured, “Rock of Ages”.  But first, stop by across the street to admire this guy.