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Category: Honoring the dead

Käthe Kollwitz Woman with Dead Child (Frau mit totem Kind) 1903
February 5, 2017 Family life / Honoring the dead

As I think about your sorrow, I have wished I could have taken Beatrice’s place

Although it was over forty years ago, it is as fresh in my memory as though it were but a day. I remember how I felt, how I thought I never could become reconciled.

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1905 map of Gray Cemetery, Knoxville
June 4, 2010 Cemeteries / Honoring the dead / Tennessee

Knoxville: Old Gray Cemetery

The characters who created Knoxville now lie in a hilly, craggy old graveyard that sits just north of downtown called Old Gray Cemetery.

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Blind people touch Helen Keller statue in Capitol
October 8, 2009 Alabama / Appalachian celebrities / Honoring the dead

New Helen Keller statue graces US Capitol

Alabama updated its presence in the US Capitol, swapping out a statue of a former congressman for a new bronze likeness of Helen Keller.

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dead baby feet
December 15, 2008 Epidemics & Pandemics / Family life / Honoring the dead / Virginia

Can you imagine how it felt to be full of milk and have no child to suckle?

The whole family was sick with whooping cough, and Grandma tried valiantly to keep the baby from getting it, but with no vaccine then, it was a losing battle.

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