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The Elk

 

The water table is very high here in New Orleans, so most cemeteries are full of mausoleums rather than graves. There is a life sized elk on top of a tomb that we drive by on every trip. 

The Internet tells me that it is the tomb of Lodge no.30 of the Benevolent Order of Elks. Said order was actors benevolent fund, founded by the wonderfully named Charles Algernon Sidney Vivian, but it seems to have mutated into something like the Freemasons. I am very taken with the elk on his mound. If you’re going to have a tomb, go big I say. I wish I was able to take a better photo.

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