February202008
Grant’s Tomb
There’s something inexplicably holy about the small shrine tucked away, fittingly, in Harlem—a secluded place of beauty where tourists and transients never dare to visit. More than just a monument for a man, it is the icon of a northeast that was once brave, beautiful, and like Grant himself, absolutely fearless. It is not just Grant’s tomb, but Lincoln’s tomb, Whitman’s tomb, Douglases tomb, and the tomb of every New York abolitionist and soldier. And the tomb of a time when we believed our ‘immoral’ values and culture were worth fighting for.
