Monday, January 5, 2009

Forest Hills Cemetery; Jamaica Plain, Boston

I took a picture of this monument just because I thought it was a beautiful sculpture. I had no idea who Kitchell Snow was. Later I learned that on June 13, 1923 he was the first pilot to land a plane in Boston (on the site of what would become Logan Airport). Thirty five days later he was killed in a plane crash.

(Among the line of Snow family tombstones in the background is one for this same Kitchell Snow so I suppose this monument is technically a cenotaph ... and yet, not quite.)