Raising the Dead: Grassroots Mappers Help Look For America’s First Veterans Cemetery.
November 8th, 2012 by eymund-diegel
An ordinary looking concrete slab in Brooklyn - what story does it really tell ?
"To balloon or to kite, that is the question.."
Just after Independence Day 2012, the “Over My Dead Body” balloon mapping expedition set out to capture high resolution aerials of a very special grave site: America’s first ever military cemetery.
Their site of interest was none other than the fabled Marylander Burial Ground, rumored location of the first soldiers ever to die as Americans in the 1776 War of Independence.
