#remembrancerock

[philipst]

Riding my bike in #CentralPark yesterday, I came upon a lovely grove of trees near Bethesda Fountain; each had a WWI memorial plaque at its base naming many of the 500 New Yorkers who died in what wouldn't be the 20th century's only global conflict. 2017 is of course a 100th anniversary. The things you can see for the first time in your own city. I have also stumbled upon #RemembranceRock on the upper Manhattan campus of City College for students who died in the 'great' war, as in one that produced a prodigious number of deaths. A lugubrious history sadly and respectfully memorialized. #MemorialTree #NYC

[thejewofkansas]

#BookoftheDay: Remembrance Rock (1948) Author: Carl Sandburg Pages: 989 "Sam Adams smiled. He would wait a little time yet before leaving this town of Boston where he had lived his fifty-two years. He seemed to think that if they should seize him and take him to London, it might 'serve the cause.' Such an act could raise excitement and stir blood as nothing hitherto of the blunders of the King's ministers." (p. 400) #RemembranceRock #CarlSandburg #Americanliterature #novel #books #book