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@Zella, then I'm creeping with you! I love looking at old cemeteries!
John, you aren't hogging the airwaves. Just load the brochure! We all want to see it.
Yeah it's a family pastime. I didn't realize it was considered weird until I was on trips with people I was not related to and my enthusiasm/ cemetery wish list was treated as creepy.@Zella, then I'm creeping with you! I love looking at old cemeteries!
John, you aren't hogging the airwaves. Just load the brochure! We all want to see it.
The actions of honoring our ancestors and the past is an anathema to many in today’s society. Your example of restoring the wall around the grave should receive approbation not criticism. Hope y’all have other upcoming projects
Regards
David
Wonderful job. Something akin to “making the bed” and you’ve done so in spectacular fashion. Thank you, and your mentor for the respect you’ve shown her final resting place.
Captain John, I think your work turned out great! It would have never gotten done if you hadn't rolled up your sleeves and just made it happen. Obviously a great amount of planning, design, not to mention physical labor were required. I salute you sir for your efforts!
There is an overgrown cemetery on the grounds of St. Paul's Episcopal. I've started to clean up the undergrowth and interestingly I have discovered numerous items left on the grave sites. Usually, I find little cloth flowers, trinkets, toys, etc. in old glass Mason jars. These I am careful not to damage and return them to where I found them.
My work is limited to the cooler days of Fall after the leaves have dropped off the trees and vines. That way I can see what I'm doing. Also during that time of year I'm less likely to have unpleasant encounters with stinging insects and reptiles with fangs.
I know this sounds silly, but when I'm working alone in the cemetery, I'm talking the whole time. Making sure the residents understand that I'm only trying to help keep the place nice, so their descendants and friends can come visit.... So far they haven't objected : )
Captain John, I was unfamiliar with the "State of Jefferson" and thus had to educate myself.
I find the proposed new state "most interesting" and probably will not the last movement of it's kind.
Especially given the current divisive nature of today's "identity politics".
… I do, too! At the risk of sounding mildly creepy, one of my favorite things to do when visiting a place is check out the old cemeteries.
One of the to many people odd things I ever did while traveling was in Paris - I'd set aside an entire day in March to visit the Louvre Museum; when I arrived I discovered that week coincided with Spring Break in Italy, and the place was swarming with Italian teenagers! The galleries hadn't opened quite yet and I was packed in the entryway with all of them, when I decided Enough of this! and headed for another place at a little distance: Pere Lachaise Cemetery. This is an enormous place, and no need to tell a great bit quitter than the Louvre, full of the Great from France's near past - several of Napoleon's Marshals, artists, statesmen, etc., etc. and even a few expatriates like Oscar Wilde and Gertrude Stein. It was a historical site, too: on one long stone wall was a sign denoting that had been where the surviving members of the Paris Commune had been lined up and shot in 1871. It was a beautiful Spring day, and I'm pretty sure I had a better time there than I would have in the museum!... I didn't realize it was considered weird until I was on trips with people I was not related to and my enthusiasm/ cemetery wish list was treated as creepy.
Ah I wanted to go to that one when I was in Paris, but it was a group trip and they couldn't find it in their hearts to let me stop! Jim Morrison is another expat there.One of the to many people odd things I ever did while traveling was in Paris - I'd set aside an entire day in March to visit the Louvre Museum; when I arrived I discovered that week coincided with Spring Break in Italy, and the place was swarming with Italian teenagers! The galleries hadn't opened quite yet and I was packed in the entryway with all of them, when I decided Enough of this! and headed for another place at a little distance: Pere Lachaise Cemetery. This is an enormous place, and no need to tell a great bit quitter than the Louvre, full of the Great from France's near past - several of Napoleon's Marshals, artists, statesmen, etc., etc. and even a few expatriates like Oscar Wilde and Gertrude Stein.
There's a good bit of that all over the city. I took the Metro east as far as it would go to Vincennes to see the chateau (castle, actually) where English King Henry V died of dysentery. The Chateau is still an active French military instillation and a sign in the moat of the medieval castle indicated where the Nazis had executed members of the French Resistance.Ah I wanted to go to that one when I was in Paris, but it was a group trip and they couldn't find it in their hearts to let me stop! Jim Morrison is another expat there.
When I was in Paris, we stayed at a hotel on the outskirts near the airport, which was very inconvenient for exploring the city, though the neighborhood itself was very nice. The hotel was backed up against a cemetery, and I did explore that one. Lots of "Victime de la Guerre" (not 100% sure on the French phrasing but definitely "victim of war") on the tombstones from WWI and WWII.
Makes sense!There's a good bit of that all over the city. I took the Metro east as far as it would go to Vincennes to see the chateau (castle, actually) where English King Henry V died of dysentery. The Chateau is still an active French military instillation and a sign in the moat of the medieval castle indicated where the Nazis had executed members of the French Resistance.