the dead

A collection of 9 posts

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #69

The Liberty Bell on the road, a mystery watch, and goodbye to the unique Jane Cryan.

Presidio

National Cemetery

The San Francisco National Cemetery in the Presidio.

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Yerba Buena Gardens

Ohlone Sunrise

In 1989, seven ancestors were moved to make way for San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens.

South of Market

The Last to Know

San Francisco stories end with the last storyteller.

North Beach

Beat Elegy

Death laid at the door of the Beat Generation in 1958 San Francisco.

Golden Gate Park

Grove of Memory

Memorial groves, grand and humble, here and gone, honoring San Franciscans lost in World War I.

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Grab Bag

Grab Bag #42

A Woody-thinking-too-much Grab Bag. You have to expect that now and then...

World War II

Gold Star Corners

San Francisco's 1943 plan to remember its war dead.

Sunset District

Secret Ice Rink

Remembering the San Francisco Ice Arena, once hidden in the the middle of a Sunset District block.