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Saddest Angel


After the lovely indoor celebration of ECS’s 200th, Linda and I went looking for two women’s graves in Woodlawn Cemetery, I have not yet photographed–Celia Cruz and Gertrude Ederle. That’s when I found this angel statue. For my book “Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts” I visited countless cemeteries & this is the “saddest angel” I’ve seen.

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