Resting places
Paula Lemire's ongoing project researching the history of the Albany Rural Cemetery this month touches on the history of African-American burial grounds in Albany's history and is well worth a read.
A clip: "Perhaps one of the most intriguing black Albanians buried at the Rural Cemetery is Dianna Mingo. Buried in Section 9 in an unmarked grave purchased by her niece, Dianna was born a slave in Schodack before the Revolution and died at the age of 104 almost two decades after the Civil War. On a recent late summer day, someone had laid chestnuts on her grave, perhaps a nod to the chestnut tree planted by Dianna Mingo in front of her State Street home in the early 1840s." [Garden Alley]
... said KGB about Drawing: What's something that brought you joy this year?