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Photographed at Salem Street Burying Ground in Medford, Massachusetts, on a sunny morning in December 2025.
January 30, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Photographed at Salem Street Burying Ground in Medford, Massachusetts, on a sunny morning in December 2025.
There are three faces carved into this stone, but only two names visible. It’s like that there’s at least one more line of the inscription than what’s visible above the ground.
January 30, 2026 at 6:32 PM
There are three faces carved into this stone, but only two names visible. It’s like that there’s at least one more line of the inscription than what’s visible above the ground.
Photographed at Black Point Cemetery in Scarborough, Maine, in golden hour, January 2026.
January 30, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Photographed at Black Point Cemetery in Scarborough, Maine, in golden hour, January 2026.
The Mac was seized and sold at auction in Bath, Maine, in 1799. www.masshist.org/object-of-th...
Massachusetts Historical Society: Object of the Month
www.masshist.org
January 27, 2026 at 12:56 PM
The Mac was seized and sold at auction in Bath, Maine, in 1799. www.masshist.org/object-of-th...
The voyage that John Boit was preparing the Mac for was a secret and illegal voyage to transport enslaved captives from Africa to Cuba: “only 206 of 244 enslaved captives survived the Atlantic crossing and almost one third of the survivors were children.”
January 27, 2026 at 12:56 PM
The voyage that John Boit was preparing the Mac for was a secret and illegal voyage to transport enslaved captives from Africa to Cuba: “only 206 of 244 enslaved captives survived the Atlantic crossing and almost one third of the survivors were children.”
And the Wikipedia article on John Boit brings together some contradictory accounts of how teenage Zhou Libei ended up in Boston, the first known person of Chinese descent in the United States: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bo...
January 27, 2026 at 12:53 PM
And the Wikipedia article on John Boit brings together some contradictory accounts of how teenage Zhou Libei ended up in Boston, the first known person of Chinese descent in the United States: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bo...
There’s an Atlas Obscura entry about this one: www.atlasobscura.com/places/chow-...
Chow Manderien's Grave in Boston
The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.
www.atlasobscura.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:52 PM
There’s an Atlas Obscura entry about this one: www.atlasobscura.com/places/chow-...
Photographed at Central Burying Ground in Boston in the middle of a sunny day in January 2026.
January 27, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Photographed at Central Burying Ground in Boston in the middle of a sunny day in January 2026.
Photographed at Bell Rock Cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts, on a cold, windy afternoon in December 2025.
January 27, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Photographed at Bell Rock Cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts, on a cold, windy afternoon in December 2025.
The letter t in “ᴄᴀᴘᵀ” looks like an ↑ upward-facing arrow.
January 27, 2026 at 12:31 AM
The letter t in “ᴄᴀᴘᵀ” looks like an ↑ upward-facing arrow.
Excited to see a stone with a winged skull _and_ a winged hourglass.
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Excited to see a stone with a winged skull _and_ a winged hourglass.
I enjoy that the italic text paraphrases Psalm 77 in a way that makes it feel even more ominous.
The full verse from the KJV version: “Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.”
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...
The full verse from the KJV version: “Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.”
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...
January 26, 2026 at 5:56 PM
I enjoy that the italic text paraphrases Psalm 77 in a way that makes it feel even more ominous.
The full verse from the KJV version: “Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.”
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...
The full verse from the KJV version: “Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.”
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...
Photographed at Old York Cemetery, in York, Maine, on a somewhat cloudy afternoon in January 2026.
January 26, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Photographed at Old York Cemetery, in York, Maine, on a somewhat cloudy afternoon in January 2026.