At Pine Bluff''s Graceland cemetery

There are 67 graves of young children in Babyland, dating from 1956 thru 1985.  Most of the children were only a few days old when they died. Some were as old as two years. 

Inez was born at the time Albert Einstein finished his first relativity paper, which, coincidentally, since we are looking at markers where bodies are buried, has the word "bodies" in its title: "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies."   June 28 was possibly even the very day Einstein finished the paper and mailed it to the Annalen der Physik.  It was received there on June 30.  The title of Einstein's second relativity paper, published in the fall of 1905, in which the relation E equals m times c squared was first derived, also has "bodies" in the title:  "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content?" In the case of the bodies in the cemetery, the inertia reaches a maximum (it would take a lot of energy to move the interred body), while the energy (mass) continues to decline, for instance through radioactive decay of Carbon-14 atoms.

2 more Selma, Arkansas 2011 photos

Top: the Baptist church in Selma. Bottom: This sign was apparently written before the 2010 mid-term elections, but the last three lines of it have more relevance to the November 2, 2014 election cycle. The fellow who wrote the sign must be feeling like he's in high Cotton these days. When the results of  the Republican's successful take-over become reality, I wonder if their Cotton will still be high when 2016 rolls around?  I do reluctantly have to admit that in Arkansas, the Democrats who opposed most of the Republicans seemed hardly worth electing, based on the pablum they dished out in a desperate effort not to lose. Fortunately, Arkansas's new governor is not emulating the governor of Kansas.