Graceland
Oddities
The coins on the statue of Eternal Silence so piqued
my curiosity that I enquired about it in the Graceland office
where they professed no knowledge of coins there but did volunteer
that teenagers like to flick coins at the marble statue of a girl
since it is protected by a plastic sheet that apparently bounces
coins in so special way so appealing to the adolescent psyche.
Kids have no respect for the dead. It takes us adults to know
how to treat a cemetery.
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This is the monument to Inez Clark who
died in 1880 before she was seven years old.
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This monument is actually in Wunder's Cemetery which is
across Irving Park Road from Graceland. You can see this
statue from the road. It is a monument to a departed daughter
or a German immigrant. The emotion expressed is intense.
I don't know if teenagers flick coins off this plastic covering.
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This is the base of
Inez's monument. As you can see people continue to leave
small toys in memory of her. |
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A Virtual Tour of Chicago's Cemeteries
© 2002 Joe Kelley
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