FOURTH OF JULY (Day 6 - part 1)

We began the day at the Mount Hope Cemetery, the second-oldest garden cemetery in the US, established in 1834. Some 30,000 people are buried on the cemetery's 264 acres.

The Maine Korean War Memorial, built in 1995, lists the 233 Maine soldiers killed or missing in action in the war between North and South Korea.

This fort was built in 1907 to honor veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic. It was rebuilt in 1985 with funding from the Second Maine Regiment of Volunteers in the Civil War.

Dates of the Civil War

Frederick Cummings (1838 - 1899, 29th Mayor of Bangor) ... and his wife Mary Emma (born in China, Maine, 1845, married in 1861, died 1898)

A groundhog!

Some relationships are clear... while others are a bit more complicated.

Many didn't have firm dates. Lucy in the back has nothing more than her name. Eliza only has the date she died and her age (The AE stands for the Latin word aetatis, meaning 'at the age of').

A bird house? A memorial? Purpose unknown.

A very detailed family history. ... Symbol of The Shriners (The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine)

Lawrence King Casey (1902 - 1988, parents from Ireland)
his wife Alice Boultbee Casey (1902 - 1986, with a descendant being a Pilgrim on the Mayflower)
and their son Lawrence

These are both symbols of the Freemasons.

The other side of the Korean War Memorial

We then took a stroll along the Penobscot River Walkway.

A double crested cormorant and a gull

Very likely a northern mockingbird... Such a scowl!

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