The piercing radio tone echoed across the lawn in front of the Nassau County Sheriff s Office on Wednesday morning, then a dispatcher read the end of watch roll call for the nine names on a brick wall memorializing those who died on duty there.
The terse dictation included Deputy Joseph Robinson, killed in 1891, and Bailiff Deputy Jack Gwynes, felled by COVID-19 just three months ago and not yet added. Rest in peace, job well-done, the dispatcher ended.
Fallen Nassau County sheriff s deputies, plus a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, Hilliard constable and Fernandina Beach were all remembered at a 30-minute ceremony under flags flapping at half-mast in the breeze.
D. Ray Smith/Historically Speaking
My friends Fred Eiler and Dennis Eggert have shared their research into the Revolutionary soldiers who are known to be buried in cemeteries located within the city limits of Oak Ridge. Dennis has compiled the below information for “Historically Speaking.” I am pleased to bring this information to you readers. I also hope we can properly recognize these Revolutionary War veterans with at least one historical marker.
I have long been interested in recognizing these individuals but did not have the needed information to confirm the location of the burials. Thanks to Dennis for compiling the results of much research. Enjoy the conclusion of Dennis’ report on these soldiers and their resting places.
January 27, 2021
Join Next City for the first of two virtual conversations in our series, “The Future of Monumentality,” as we examine the past, present, and future of public monuments from the unique intersection of art, design, and urbanism. The speaker series, moderated by New York Times critic Salamishah Tillet, is co-presented in partnership with the High Line.
In 2020 communities around the world protested the institutional racism of police violence toward Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people the same people who have experienced disproportionately devastating health effects and economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the most powerful symbols engaged by these protests has been the removal and defacing of monuments, as well as their use as focal points and backdrops for rallies, speeches, performances, and collections of protest signs. And as the disturbing insurrection in Washington, D.C., has shown, white supremacists continue to wield and deface monuments
The forgotten Revolutionary War heroes of the Oak Ridge Reservation
Dennis Eggert and D. Ray Smith/Special to The Oak Ridger
My friends Fred Eiler and Dennis Eggert have shared their research into the Revolutionary War soldiers who are known to be buried in cemeteries located within the city limits of Oak Ridge. Dennis has compiled the information below for “Historically Speaking.” I am pleased to bring this information to you readers. I also hope we can properly recognize these Revolutionary War veterans with at least one historical marker.
I have long been interested in recognizing these individuals, but did not have the needed information to confirm the location of the burials. Thanks to Dennis for compiling the results of much research. Enjoy the first half of Dennis’ report on these soldiers and their resting places.
Patrick Wright on the Final Years of a Wandering Writer
December 11, 2020
A sign provided by the council identifies two noteworthy graves in the Isle of Sheppey’s main cemetery. The first, at plot 83 FF, marks the last resting place of Mr. Frederick Peake, who somehow managed to survive the Charge of the Light Brigade while serving with the 13th Light Dragoons during the Crimean War. Unlike so many who followed their Harrovian commander, Major General James Robert Brudenell, the 7th Earl of Cardigan, into the misdirected charge of October 25, 1854, Sergeant Peake emerged from “the Valley of Death” with no worse than a shattered arm, a pension and a job, both light and enduring, in the stores at the Admiralty dockyard at Sheerness. He was buried to the sound of rifle volleys and the “Last Post” on December 27, 1906, a local hero who had lived quietly across the fields from here, at 37 Alma Road in the part of Sheerness known as Marine Town.