We will be meeting up at Elmwood Cemetery for a little night photography. This is a fun opportunity to play with long exposure photography. Be sure to bring your camera, tripod, remote shutter releases, warm clothes and anything else you may need to be outside for a while.
The Elmwood Cemetery is an incredible place filled with history. Remember that this is a sacred place and many families have family members buried here.
Flora Jeanette Dow (Nettie Dow), the first librarian of the Sycamore Public Library is buried here. I enjoy visiting her grave where she rests between her mother and her father. Nettie passed away in June, 1905, the same year that the Carnegie Library was being built. She visited the library on May 24, 1905 while very ill to lay a trowel of mortar on the cornerstone of the building just one month before she passed away. There are some who believe that her spirit comes to visit the library.
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