The Dynamite Dome
by Jenny Armitage
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Title
The Dynamite Dome
Artist
Jenny Armitage
Medium
Painting - Transparent Watercolor On Arches Cold-pressed Paper
Description
This is another view of Central City's Boot Hill. According to a gift shop owner in town, the odd brick dome was used to store dynamite. The storage dome was built in the graveyard because of the dangerous of storing explosives in town. Nothing about the dome proclaims it's purpose, and it would be an odd mausoleum so I'm glad the gift shop owner was chatty. Otherwise, we would have gone away wondering.
She went on to tell us that the dome is on the Catholic side of the graveyard because the powers that be in the city were Protestant. The may be, but the Catholic side of the grave yard is both better tended and more populous than the Protestant side. Judging from the names on the stones, the Catholics in the 1800s were primarily Irish with a sprinkling of Slavs and Spanish miners. The other Boot Hill views I have have posted here have also been from the Catholic side. The monument I painted in Victorian Deadwood is from the Protestant side, but there are many more like it on the Catholic side.
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October 30th, 2009
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