OMG...I googled images of Rock Creek.
Black Aggie!
*Got* to get there this spring!
“Black Aggie” is the same statue (I think) somewhere else. This is the original sculpture by St. Gaudens. It has a long name, but most people refer to it simply as “Grief.”
If you like cemeteries Rock Creek is a good place.
Not knowing exactly where you are in the area, Baldwin Memorial United Methodist Church near Crownsville, MD, has a nice little cemetery with some old headstones. :
And if you ever get to London, Highgate Cemetery is *very* interesting and photogenic.:
http://www.highgate-cemetery.org/
I was there many years ago. Spooky even in the daytime.
I wanted to see how this thread ended up and saw your post.
I didn’t know what Black Aggie was. What a cool sculpture and history.
I have to admit I googled because we have a college that is referred to as The Aggies (Tx A&M). All I could think of was..Oh, no what have they done now!!
Turned out to be a learning experience.:)
You’d love Howard Street on Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks. Lined with old family cemeteries, paved with loose oyster shells and cocquina. Sheltered by live oaks draped with spanish moss.
It’s not a big village at all but has become a very popular summer destination, park your car once you get there from the ferry landing. It’s walkable, bikable or for the less athletically inclined, rent an electric golf cart.
Wacky old place, still a functional fishing village but I’d say it’s somewhere between Key West, the way certain parts of coastal California used to be, and a strange little corner of New Orleans, lol. Very laid back.
Ghost tours and such, with the most noted being to take a boat out to nearby Teach’s Hole under a full moon. Slap an oar on the water and Blackbeard’s headless body will materialize and swim around the boat, or so the old tale goes, lol.
http://villagecraftsmen.blogspot.com/2009/04/cemeteries-map-key.html