The Metairie Cemetery
by Tim Stanley
Title
The Metairie Cemetery
Artist
Tim Stanley
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans is like nothing I've ever seen before. While it might be the "norm" for folks in Louisiana, for this Texas boy, it was something from a different planet. Metairie Cemetery has the largest collection of elaborate marble tombs and funeral statuary in the city. What I didn't realize was how many people they would place inside each tomb. Some of them were the size of small buildings and many were extremely elaborate and might contain a dozen or two people. There was definitely plenty of "old money" buried there.
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October 30th, 2014
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