The Highest Place by Juniper Homolko
February 28th, 2011 1:24 PMThe Minerva Statue: The battle is commemorated with a statue of Minerva near the top of Battle Hill, the highest point of Brooklyn, in Green-wood Cemetery. The statue on the northwest corner of the cemetery looks toward the Statue of Liberty. In 2006, the Minerva statue was evoked in a successful defense to prevent a building from blocking the line of sight from the cemetery to the Statue of Liberty in the harbor. - The Battle of Long Island @ Wikipedia
Sham.
The actual highest point in Brooklyn is about 30 yards from Battle Hill and the statue of Minerva on a neighboring hill housing the mausoleum of Philip and Latifee Kiamie. I only discovered this after my journey began.
Here's Minerva, hanging out with a wreath and some proclamations.
She stands eye-to-eye with Lady Liberty, which is pretty neat.
However, a quick glance around and I noticed that the next hill over was clearly taller. Task incomplete!
The view from the Kiamie mausoleum steps is impressive. It's evident that Battle Hill is substantially raised when you're standing on it looking out, but there are a ton of bullshit commemorations preventing you from actually looking around. The Kiamie hill comes to a small point, and you can peer out for quite a bit in every direction without too much getting in your way.
Details below. Unrelated shots from the same excursion here.
Task Complete,
Juniper
P.S.
This poor headstone had been knocked over.
I helped it.
It didn't look super sturdy compared to its friends, but it survived a swift kick without falling back over.
Minerva
Minerva & Liberty, Eye-to-Eye
An adjacent hill!
Higher than Minerva
Re: The Declaration of Independence
The wisest document ever written, of human rights and liberties, basic ethics, civic religion and democratic government. All these are expressed in this one essential paragraph “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Equality – Liberty – Human Rights
“The place whereon thou standest is holy ground”
Glory to the memory of out first national heroes who fought and fell on this battle ground to win our liberty and independence!
Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, glory and patriotism, here salutes the goddess of liberty and enwreaths this altar in tribute to the heroes of American liberty and to the wisdom of American institutions.
Sterling's Vow
Here and along the slopes of Greenwoods Hills, our patriots for the first time faced their foe in open field, and well we stood this test. ‘Men!’ cried Lord Stirling, as we formed our line, ‘this Grant who comes against us once declared in England’s House of Commons – I sat there and heard – that given him five thousand men he’d cross our continent from end to end! He has his number now! I doubt not; We a fourth as many, yet I promise you he’ll march no farther through our continent than Brower’s Mill ponds yonder.’
Altar to Liberty
On this Battle Hill, facing the Statue of Liberty, this altar is erected to commemorate the Battle of Long Island. The first engagement of which was fought on this site, August 27, 1776, between General Lord Stirling with 2,000 Americans and General Grant with 6,000 British. This was the first battle of the nation and the first stroke for our great American charter of rights and liberties, the Declaration of Independence. Erected 1919.
Mausoleum hill
helmet detail
face detail
minerva detail
oh no!
poor alice
i'm helping i'm helping
i helped!
kind of.
15 vote(s)
Pixie
3
APR dreamlands
3
Bamorsha Singh
4
Rin Brooker
4
cody
5
Burn Unit
5
Ink Tea
1
teucer
3
Idøntity matrix
3
Loki
4
Not Here No More
2
Sean Mahan
3
Juliette
4
Ben [Sunshine]
5
N Mutans
Terms
(none yet)4 comment(s)
And by "that B" I mean "Minerva".
I had to get around her neck to get make sure she was actually eye-to-eye with Lady Libs; that shot is actually taken with Minerva's eye up to the viewfinder.
Oh Buddha in a bathtub! Barely glanced over this! 4 points all the way!
I read the words "task incomplete!" in a strongbad voice.