interestingly, afterwards i went to the cemetery tour. knowing i was a coward, i thought i was going to be spooked out. instead i got a history lesson. speakers were dresssed up as individuals who were buried here, explaining their significance in history. these are some of the interesting events i choose to lecture here.
may 1st is a worldwide labor day. it started in 1886. workers were protesting for better working conditions when an anonymous bomb killed one policeman. instantly, the other policemen opened fire on the protestors. this was called the haymarket massacre.
another tragic event was the Iroquois Theatre fire in chicago, 1903. an arc light shorted and had ignited the curtain. no one knew what was happening until flames started shooting out. 602 people died as a result.
finally, the spanish civil war. i never knew america was involved and that Ernest Hemingway was a reporter there. Hemingway hated oak park. he thought it was a place for narrowminded people, which was why he wasn't buried here.
i wonder what will become of me when i die. would i be buried? or cremated? or remembered atall?
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