Don Henderson

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You don’t have to cry. Trinkets and tributes on Mac Miller’s grave. Homewood Cemetery, Point Breeze, Pittsburgh.
08/19/2026

You don’t have to cry. Trinkets and tributes on Mac Miller’s grave. Homewood Cemetery, Point Breeze, Pittsburgh.

Last night, I decided that I needed a bookmark befitting the new book Shane & Nicole got me. The book, The Immortal Iris...
08/18/2026

Last night, I decided that I needed a bookmark befitting the new book Shane & Nicole got me. The book, The Immortal Irishman, about the life and times of Thomas Francis Meagher should have a Celtic bookmark, so I took a Celtic Cross/Visual Prayer design that I had done previously and turned it into a bookmark!

Years ago, my son Shane and I were exploring Allegheny Cemetery in my native Lawrenceville. While we were photographing ...
07/27/2026

Years ago, my son Shane and I were exploring Allegheny Cemetery in my native Lawrenceville. While we were photographing some graves, a woman pulled up in a white Chrysler Cordoba with one of those crystal 5 point star hood ornaments, she was pleasant looking, had blonde hair and was wearing a white knitted poncho. She asked us if we would like to know where some of the famous graves were? We said sure. She said her name was Serafina and that her dad had worked here at Allegheny Cemetery and she had spent a lot of time here with him and knew where all the important graves were. We followed her white Cordoba as she took us around the cemetery. She would stop, I'd park my Jeep, she would point out the significant grave and Shane and I would take photos, then hop in to the vehicles and off to the next stop. The last stop we made was at the mass grave for the victims of the Allegheny Arsenal explosion on September 17, 1862. We walked up to the grave, we were reading the inscription and taking photos, when I turned to ask Serafina a question, she was gone. We didn't see or hear her leave, she was just gone.

This photo wasn't taken at the last stop, just at a stop along the way. This is the grave of 1st Lt Lewis T. Brown, he was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, he served with Battery B, Hampton's Battery. He was later promoted to Chief of Ordnance for the Pennsylvania militia volunteers and was the executive committee chair for the Pennsylvania Commission for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. He died in March 1911 and is memorialized with this 1912 monument in Allegheny Cemetery.

The name Serafina is derived from Seraphim. The Seraphim are the highest order of angels. These angels are described as being made of pure light and fire.

This is a photograph of me by Kenny Champion. This was taken when we both worked at Prisma. I’m guessing early 1990s.
07/25/2026

This is a photograph of me by Kenny Champion. This was taken when we both worked at Prisma. I’m guessing early 1990s.

07/23/2026

Mercedes is magic!

I haven’t worked in Downtown since 2012. After graduating from AIP in 1977, I spent most of the next 35 years working Do...
06/25/2026

I haven’t worked in Downtown since 2012. After graduating from AIP in 1977, I spent most of the next 35 years working Downtown. There was always a gritty vibe about the place that I really liked, I don’t get that same vibe today. There is still the grittiness, but I felt more desperation in the vibe. There was always homeless people in Pittsburgh and people who had no business there, but it seemed just in the brief time we were there, that there were more homeless people on the street. The vibe from Liberty Avenue to Penn Avenue was always different, but last night it seemed more extreme, both in businesses and people. I need to get back down there and explore. Garrison Way between Liberty Avenue and Penn Avenue looks really cool with the lighting. I used to cut through here from time to time when I worked on Penn Avenue.

Last night, we were in Downtown Pittsburgh for dinner with my son Shane for his birthday. I spent 37 years of my life go...
06/25/2026

Last night, we were in Downtown Pittsburgh for dinner with my son Shane for his birthday. I spent 37 years of my life going to school and working Downtown. I haven’t been back much since leaving in 2012. It felt weird, not a bad weird, but more like finding something new weird. When I worked Downtown, I was doing graphic design, illustration for advertising, but any chance I had, I would be out on the streets taking photos. I knew pretty much every street, alley, bridge and building, but after being away, except far a few brief visits like last night, I have been away for over a decade. You can take me out of Pittsburgh, but you can’t take Pittsburgh out of me.

This is so cool!
06/23/2026

This is so cool!

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