Metairie Cemetery

The cemetery was everything and more - I just wandered and marveled.  Metairie Cemetery has the largest collection of elaborate marble tombs and funeral statuary in the city.  P.G.T. Beauregard and John Bell Hood,  Confederate Officers are buried there as well as Governor Claiborne, Hahn, Heard, Leche, Parker, McEnery, and Pinchback.   Norman Treigle, Louis Prima and Al Hirt headline there now.  The inventor of the Higgins Boat and the inventor of the binocular microscope call Metairie Cemetery home.   Dorothy Dix, Marguerite Clark, Grace King, The Lottery King, Mel Ott and a host of other fine folks are buried there as well.  I can visualize all them sharing a meal and being served by Al Copeland or Ruth Fertel.  What an amazing place.  I did not set out to find their burial sites.  I just wandered and took pictures of what interested me.

TWELVE
By the time you are twelve your affections are fixed.
Then come the decades that roll your heart like a cheese
In the sea. Yes, it is surreal.
Then you are twelve again, and old.
And you find the waxed red ball of your heart on the shore.
And you are not surprised by anything now except
That you should love at the end what you loved
At the beginning.
Stan Rice, Author and Poet