cemetery – Ruth E. Hendricks

Wordless Wednesday

September 16, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: cemetery, hourglass, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, time, tour, wings 9 Comments

Silent Sunday

August 23, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Animals in the City, Photography, silent SundayTags: animals in the city, cemetery, deer, fitness journey, groundhog, photography, postaday, Senior Citizens, silent Sunday, turkey, walk 5 Comments

Touring the Ridges

Video of the Ridges Granddaughter Anna was driving so I had to opportunity to film the tour.

Touring The Ridges a Former Psychiatric Hospital 1874-1993

For history click here

May 21, 2025 by Ruth Categories: architecture, PhotographyTags: architecture, Athens Ohio, cemetery, photography, postaday, Psychiatric Hospital, The Ridges, travel, vintage 10 Comments

Memorial Day 2022

**National Cemetery of the Alleghenies**

Memorial Day Compendium (click here)

Jim McGinley, One of many remembered
along Butler Street Lawrenceville

May 29, 2022May 29, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: cemetery, Memorial Day, National Cemetery of the Alleghenies, photography, postaday, sacrifice, tribute, veterans 5 Comments

Silent Sunday

National Cemetery of the Alleghenies

September 6, 2020 by Ruth Categories: silent SundayTags: Armed Forces, cemetery, Department of Veterans Affairs, flag, memorial, Military Funeral, National Cemetery of the Alleghenies, photography, postaday, Washington County 6 Comments

Silent Sunday Guest Blog

***My good friend Vincie saw this statue and inscription while walking in the cemetery. Someone visited and left a stone.***
***Thanks for sending me this imag***e.
***Perfect for Silent Sunday***

June 6, 2020 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 1918, 1919, cemetery, Christ, guest blog, influenza epidemic, memorial, Pandemic, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, religious statue, tribute 2 Comments

Signage spotted by my sister

We drove by the Allegheny Cemetery entrance on Butler St in Lawrenceville. We drove back to catch the sign she’d seen.

July 11, 2017July 11, 2017 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Allegheny Cemetery, cemetery, Cremation, Lawrenceville, photography, Pittsburgh PA, Pittsburgh Photography, postaday, signage, sister 3 Comments

One Last Green Gallery

Love the green challenge this week. The new challenges come out on Wednesdays now.

March 28, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: brussel sprouts, cemetery, Ceramics, chair, Christmas Cactus, graffiti, green, lichen, photography, postaday, produce, weekly photo challenge 9 Comments

Etna Memorial Day Ceremony 2016

I was invited to attend the Etna Memorial Day Ceremony at 7:30 AM today.

Mary Ellen’s mother’s home is on High Street in Etna next to this hillside cemetery. Her grandmother hostessed the party decades before. Our hostess today was Ruth Gubanic. She continues the tradition in memory of her brothers. She had three brothers who served: two in WWII and one in the Korean War. She honors all three on Memorial Day. Their names are Will, Eddie and Rayme.

All of the Veterans’ names will be added after the initial post because I don’t want to mess up spelling or misidentifying anyone…but I also know they are eager to see some of the photographs from today. I have created a separate Etna Memorial Day Parade album on Flickr and as soon as it is edited a bit, I will post that link as well.

It was an honor and a privilege to document the ceremony today.

You can see our gracious hostess Ruth in the front row.

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The Grand Marshall of the Parade -Jim Oehling

During the ceremony there was a “flyover”- of honking geese

Wreath Laying

This gentleman is Rick Stefanick, and he is going to help me identify all the other participants with their correct names. Thank you, Rick.

Jim Brokenbek (l) from Post 106 and Rick Stefanick.

Friends for more than forty years, ready to march in the parade.

Richard Hudak is the Firing Squad Master

Mary Ellen and her mother Ruth

For a few more photos, here is a link to the Flickr Album

https://www.flickr.com/gp/ruth_e/V7Uj2A

May 30, 2016May 30, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Armed Forces, celebration, cemetery, Etna PA, Etna VFW, flyover, Korea, memorial, Memorial Day, military, music, parade, remembering, taps, veterans, Vietnam, wreath laying, WW2 14 Comments

Sculptor Transformed 100 year old Norway Maple Tree Stump into Revolutionary Wartime Presbyterian Minister

That lengthy title gives it all away -Another post of last week’s time in Philadelphia –

Sculptor and excellent ice carver, Roger Wing, transformed a 100 year old Norway Maple stump into an impressive likeness of Pastor George Duffield (b.1732-d.1790).

(Click Roger Wing Sculptor and you can see more examples of his amazing sculpture.)

Walking back to the hotel, I passed by The Old Pine Street Church Graveyard.

Architect Joseph G. Brin article details information about how this Revolutionary War Minister’s sermon inspired John Adams to sign the Declaration of Independence.

  The wind made the flags billow and flap, making snapping sounds.
  Unlike the Harmonist Cemetery I posted yesterday, these graves are marked.

Well, they were marked.

Years of erosion have made many names difficult to read.

March 6, 2016 by Ruth Categories: sculpture, TravelTags: Amerucan History, architect, cemetery, George Duffield, ice carver, Joseph G. Brin, Norway Maple, Old Pine Street Church, Philadelphia, photography, postaday, Presbyterian, Revolutionary War, Roger Wing, sculpture, Society Hill, tree stump 22 Comments

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