On another of Donna MacIntosh and her friend Cindy’s (HI LOU!) excursions, they rode through the Forest Hill Cemetery in Houghton, checking out several of the large memorials there. The first one is the Hoar Family Mausoleum, which is a Michigan Historic Site and has a Hoar Family Mausoleum Michigan Historical Marker on Waymarking.com. For more detailed information, click on the previous link. I found it interesting that “Richard Hoar and his wife, Elizabeth Bailey, had six children. In 1895 he had a family mausoleum constructed in Portage Township's Forest Hill Cemetery. Richard died in 1903; Elizabeth died in 1929. Both are interred in the mausoleum, as well as two of their sons, two daughters, a son-in-law, two granddaughters and a grandson-in-law.”

The third photo is the Shelden Famly Memorial at Forest Hill, also. According to Visit Keweenaw, “The Shelden family lot, located facing the Portage Canal, was one of the "first families", venturing to the Keweenaw when it was just an untamed wilderness. Ransom Shelden, Sr. built the first store, helped establish the first copper mines and was involved in many successful business ventures. In 1893, his son, Ransom Shelden, Jr. built his striking Queen Anne style home on what is now the MTU Tau Kappa Epsilon residence on College Avenue.”

Donna’s bottom photo was one she took after a rain. You know how spiderwebs can be seen on top of the grass and then there’s dew from the rain? Well, Donna put her camera on macro, slid it under a web and this is what she got. Pretty cool I must say!

So, today’s video is from The Restless Viking and is about what may be the smallest military cemetery in the U.S. It’s located downstate on Camp Grayling and the Hanson Hills Recreation Area. Poppins and Chuck visit the cemetery and give us some background on it, including how many soldiers are buried there. Kind of a fitting video, even though it’s not in the U.P., since today is the final day of the Michigan National Guard State Annual Training at Camp Grayling and there are units from the U.P. that have been there for two weeks in training and will be heading home this weekend. Safe travels to them all!

I sure am glad to see you getting
out and about, Donna and providing
us with some excellent pix as well. Many’s the
time I’ve passed by one of the convoys
heading up I-75 and they were always
ready and willing to offer a wave as you
passed by and it was a special feeling.
I’ll bet UC knows what I’m talking about.
Thanks for the memories, Donna and Cindy
(alias Lou).

…and the spiderweb pic is very cool…good eye!

Old cemeteries are so interesting! Thanks for the pictures!

We were just saying yesterday about how when we were little we'd see the guys headed to Camp Grayling up old/new I-75 (remember when it went along 10 to 27?) and we'd wave at them. The convoy went below the speed limit so you'd always be passing them. They were pretty nice about waving to us!

Nice, Donna. I was just there
yesterday, reseeding my
grandparent's graves. I saw all of
these things, except the spider
web, lol. They're so cool. I even
thought about talking some
pictures, but didn't. So thanks
for doing it for us. I wish there
was perpetual care on all of the
graves. It would look so much
nicer up there.

We cruise cemeteries a lot. We just talked about
it on this ride...Elo, Liminga, Lake Linden,
Houghton, Hancock, Oskar Bay, Pinery Indian
Cemetery, down in Ishpeming, Marquette...there is
so much interesting history in all of them. I
thought the Shelden one was for priests and
nuns...Lou walked in and said "Shelden". Down at
the Assinin's cemetery, there's a place in
there..REALLY old for Catholic priests and
nuns...that's cool stuff....from back in the
1800's.

I really liked how the spider web turned out.

And I love Restless Vikings videos...I hated
history in school...but give me an old cemetery or
a Restless Viking vid...I'm there.

Happy Father's day to all the Daddy's out there!~

Only a dad, but he gives his all
To smooth the way for his children small,
Doing, with courage stern and grim,
The deeds that his father did for him.
This is the line that for him I pen,
Only a dad, but the best of men.

–"Only a Dad," by Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959)

I love that, Donna!!

Happy Father's Day to all the
wonderful pasty dads.