Looking Through the Pylon

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“Dignified and beautifully proportioned, it is symbolic of an attitude toward the dead their part in the hereafter, expressive, but respectful and reverential, which arose in the valley of the Nile centuries before Christianity and it consequently so detached from modern creeds, prejudices or sentiments that it can appeal to any belief.”

With these word s, Denison Olmstead, Professor of Astronomy and Natural Philosophy at Yale University laid the cornerstone of the New Haven City Burial Ground (now Grove Street Cemetery).