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Graves of David and Mabel Todd

Amherst, MA

Astronomer David Todd repeatedly traveled around the world chasing solar eclipses only to encounter clouds and other failures, while his wife Mabel Loomis Todd became crucial to the publication of Emily Dickinson's poetry. Their unusual memorials incorporate astronomical and botanical imagery tied to their lives.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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