Sunday, September 15, 2019

Indianapolis, Indiana: Crown Hill Cemetery

Crown Hill Cemetery might be the largest place of its kind I've ever seen - third in size in the United States. It's huge, old and beautiful in the manner of many big-city cemeteries.

Not every famous person in Indianapolis history is buried here. It just seems like it. Start with a President in Benjamin Harrison, who spent most of his adult life here. There are Vice Presidents in Thomas Marshall, Thomas Hendricks and Charles Fairbanks. You can add author Booth Tarkington. Dr. Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling Gun. Poet James Whitcomb Riley. Football owner Robert Irsay. Pro basketball player Roger Brown. And on and on goes the list.

Why, then, did I post this particular photo? After all, John Dillinger was one of the most notorious crooks of his day. After he and his gang robbed 24 banks among other crimes, Dillinger was finally cornered in the Biograph Theater in Chicago - where he was killed in a shootout.

I have no idea why someone chose to leave a flower on this particular man's grave. But it was odd enough to justify the photo.

Let's take a look around on a windy day:



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