Mount Hope Cemetery is a remarkable Victorian cemetery located on 196 acres of parkland in central Rochester. It was dedicated in 1838 and has 80 mausoleums, Egyptian obelisks, fountains, gothic chapels and over 350,000 graves. Many people important to both Rochester and the US rest at Mount Hope including Frederick Douglass (African-American social reformer who escaped slavery in Maryland to become a national leader of the abolitionist movement) and Susan B. Anthony (Social reformer, women's rights activist, and leader of the women's suffrage movement who anti-slavery petitions and became New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society).
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| Frederick Douglass |
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| Susan B. Anthony |
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| Civil War Graves |
Next, lunch at Lake Ontario Beach Park and then onto the Rochester Museum and Science Center. This museum's mission is to "stimulates broad community interest and understanding of science and technology, and their impact — past, present, and future — on our lives" and it delivered. The highlight for me was seeing the Bridges for Brain Injury Wildlife Rockstars. It is not often that you get up close to a porcupine munching on a granola bar or a coyote!
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| Snowflakes Up Close exhibit by RIT Professor Michael Peres |
A perfect day was finished off with dinner with my parents and Professor Marschark and Tommie Sarchet from CERP at the best Italian restaurant in Rochester!
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