NEW YORK--DAY TWO

A girl and her stoop--it's a beautiful thing!

Kiki brushes her teeth in preparation for the day. This is their interesting livingroom.

First, a quick check in her painter's studio.....

Mother is here--sleeping very comfortably in Kiki's darling bedroon.

Out the door and off to adventure....

Some beautiful trim on the girls' apartmnt building.....

En route....

The tour group meets for the tour of Cyprus Hill at the nearest Subway Station...

We're off! Kiki arranged the tour for me because her work site is associated with the Historic Tour Group.

First stop--Mother's favorite--The Evergreens Cemetery, second in age and size only to Greenwood..............

Inside the cemetery--the Subway Station in close proximity at our back.....

This is a lovely Romantic Cemetery.

Nice name!

This grave is the pride and joy of the cemetery. It commerates a local shipbuilder and is made from the iron fittings of a Monitor class ship. The actual designer of The Monitor lies nearby in Greenwood Cemetery.

Our tour guide, sporting a bandage from a biopsy, points out monumental memorials of the famous Brewery Owners. This was the brewery district for New York. Our tour guide felt the invention of the aluminum can heralded the demise of the local breweries.

Great name for a brewer! I wonder if the term "booze" has any connection?

Necropolis: (noun) the final resting place of the deceased; a city of the dead.

Memorials to many now forgotten by living souls.....

A woman in her element.....

Thousands are interned here--hopefully resting in peace....

By brooks too broad for leaping

The lightfoot boys are laid:

The rose-lipt girls are sleeping

in fields where roses fade.

A.E. Houseman

"Dying is an art, like everything else."--Sylvia Plath