It was really fucking hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While I have many, many photographs to sort through — and there’s a lot more things there still to see — for the moment I want to share the photo above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I reached a point where I could hear the crowd at the York Revolution baseball game. And that kept me going, as I’d reached a point where I could have gotten lost in just looking at individual markers. Then I crested a hill and downtown York was there before me. I could see where the baseball stadium was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next half hour — which took me to the cemetery offices and the Civil War monument — didn’t give me any better vantage point on Peoples Bank Park. I could hear the PA announcer, though not well enough to understand what he was saying. And I could hear the crowd roaring at times. But minor league baseball parks aren’t very tall as a general rule, and there’s a lot of stuff — especially trees, lots of trees — between Prospect Hill and the ballpark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was a mausoleum uphill of me, closer to George Street, and I wandered over that way, not so much to see the baseball stadium but to see what else I might see. While there wasn’t a great view of downtown from there — the angle on downtown was awkward — if I went downhill a little in the direction of downtown then I had a better view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The baseball stadium isn’t obvious in the photo — I know<\/em> it’s there, but you might find it difficult to make out — but it was a lovely view of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can see downtown York from Mount Rose Cemetery, but it’s more distant and the angle, not to mention the trees, makes seeing downtown much more difficult. I’ve taken binoculars a few times, and you can make out Prospect Hill Cemetery from Mount Rose Cemetery with binoculars, but Peoples Bank Park has completely eluded me. I know it’s there, but it must be behind something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Revolution were playing the Lancaster Barnstormers today, and as I mentioned I could hear the roar of the crowd a couple of times. Based on the time and the roars, I suspect the photo above was taken during the bottom of the third inning. On my way home an hour later I had the game on in the car, where I found out that Telvin Nash and Nellie Rodriguez had back-to-back homers in the third. I didn’t hear the report of the home run cannon, but that could be a matter of the acoustics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All in all, it was a good visit. I took a shower — a little bit on the cool side — when I got home and drank even more liquids. I have to sort through my photos as well, and that always takes some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before I sort out those photos, though, I should buy a ticket to Lancaster’s baseball game Tuesday night. They’re running a sale — $7.17, in honor of area code 717. Let me get on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The hottest day of the year, and I decide to spend over an hour and a half exploring a cemetery. I returned to Prospect Hill Cemetery, this time prepared — I had a backpack filled with fluids so I could hydrate as I went. My plan was much the same as it was the firstContinue reading “Downtown York from Prospect Hill Cemetery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5088,4,2],"class_list":["post-33807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-prospect-hill-cemetery","tag-york","tag-york-revolution","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220724_145719.jpg\")