I Wanna Be Buried in a Petworth Cemetery
In the warm-off-the-presses neighborhoods issue and a recent City Desk post, I named some of the dead VIPs buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Petworth: Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter, a former head of the National Geographic Foundation; and a guy responsible for giving the world Wonder Bread. I also mentioned that Gore Vidal has already set up his burial plot there.
Well, turns out Tim Russert has joined the DVIP crowd there.
In a chat at washingtonpost.com, Dana Milbank was asked where Russert would be buried.
Milbank said the site was kept hush-hush, but "a birdie told me it's Rock Creek Cemetery."
It's a beautiful place to take a walk or spend all eternity.
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5:51 pm
Yup; that was my question in Dana Milbank's chat, btw, as I'd noticed it wasn't mentioned elsewhere.
6:44 pm
Isn't that the location of the haunting Adams memorial statue a/k/a "Grief"? Very worth seeing...
11:12 am
Yes it is, LooLoo, and lots of other nteresting funerary art and noteworthy interments. Evalyn Walsh McLean is burined there, as well as Christian Heurich. It's a great place to spend an afternoon.