Homeless people wander aimlessly, red-tailed hawks swoop overhead.
Nearby, commuters climb into public buses, chugging through life's everyday mundane tasks.
This activity surrounds a decrepit cemetery with cracked markers and moss-draped oaks,
a graveyard that appears to have been left behind by the city that grew up around it.
But this cemetery on the northern edge of downtown is a historic jewel.
Under old cedar trees and heartfelt inscriptions lie 13 mayors, veterans of seven wars
and victims of five yellow fever epidemics.
There's also the master and the slave he loved, side--side in death.