In high school, I
took the crazy route and decided to become an International Baccalaureate (IB)
diploma student. IB is a rigorous academic program available in many schools in
America and around the world. For those of you who have never heard of it, the best and simplest
way I can describe it to you is Advanced Placement on drugs.
At the end of a
long two years in this program, our school’s IB coordinator, and also the
senior year history teacher, took me and the other five diploma students on a
relaxed field trip. This field trip was to Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester.
That might sound creepy to those of you who haven’t been there, but the place is
full of history, which is appropriate for a field trip coordinated by a history
teacher. Mount Hope is the resting place of Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel
Rochester, and Susan B. Anthony, to name a few. To see a more complete list of
“notable burials,” click here.
Frederick Douglass's grave
