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Dead baby possum in the road
On 9/6/2012 9:14 PM, Bastette wrote:
Phoenix wrote: jmcquown wrote: I do like hanging out in cemeteries Oh good! We're not the only ones. DH and I do like to wander about in cemeteries, the older the better. Fascinating places... The cemetaries on the West Coast don't compare with some of the older ones in Massachusetts, where I grew up. Some of those are 4 centuries old. (I can hear the Europeans snickering now. But Canadians and Aussies know what I mean! Four centuries is old, right?) Sure, it is for the US! Regardless, people have been buried on this continent as long as there have been people living here. East coast, west coast, all points in between. Jill |
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Dead baby possum in the road
"Bastette" wrote in message
... Phoenix wrote: jmcquown wrote: I do like hanging out in cemeteries Oh good! We're not the only ones. DH and I do like to wander about in cemeteries, the older the better. Fascinating places... The cemetaries on the West Coast don't compare with some of the older ones in Massachusetts, where I grew up. Some of those are 4 centuries old. (I can hear the Europeans snickering now. But Canadians and Aussies know what I mean! Four centuries is old, right?) -- Joyce I prefer to live with Feline Sapiens, thank you very much. It's old to us Californians, too. I remember one year when we were driving home from Lake Tahoe, we stopped by Bodie, an old ghost town. I wanted to visit the cemetery, thinking we might find some humorous inscriptions, such as the ones I've read about occasionally. Instead, we saw a very large number of children's graves. Sometimes there were three or four children in a family who had died within days of each other. There must have been some terrible epidemic there. That kind of turned me off from visiting cemeteries, although I do find the old headstones and monuments interesting. Joy |
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Dead baby possum in the road
jmcquown wrote:
On 9/6/2012 9:14 PM, Bastette wrote: Phoenix wrote: jmcquown wrote: I do like hanging out in cemeteries Oh good! We're not the only ones. DH and I do like to wander about in cemeteries, the older the better. Fascinating places... The cemetaries on the West Coast don't compare with some of the older ones in Massachusetts, where I grew up. Some of those are 4 centuries old. (I can hear the Europeans snickering now. But Canadians and Aussies know what I mean! Four centuries is old, right?) Sure, it is for the US! Regardless, people have been buried on this continent as long as there have been people living here. East coast, west coast, all points in between. But the people who lived here before Europeans came didn't mark their graves in the same way that we do now. At least, I have never seen an ancient Native cemetary with engraved gravestones. Unfortunately, many Native burial grounds have been paved over and had stuff built on them like malls, etc. -- Joyce "Riveting reading that keeps readers reading." -- The Midwest Book Review |
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Dead baby possum in the road
"Bastette" wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: "dgk" wrote in message I suppose I could have buried it but my elbow just wasn't up to the job of digging a deep hole. Besides, it wouldn't have helped the possum who was beyond caring. I think I just want to be cremated and not use up valuable land. Valuable land! and here I was thinking you cared. I think he was referring to his own burial, ie, to human cemetaries. They do take up a lot of space. On the other hand, they are usually very pleasant places to hang out in. I like to bury all my beloved pets in my garden. All my dogs are here under the trees. Unfortunately, KFC was snatched and killed when I was in hospital. She was cremated with all the other strays the vet had:-( she only went out of the house to look for me when I was taken to hospital as an emergency. She'd not gone out for at least two years. Who was it that snatched her? I will never get over this. She died without me beside her. |
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Cemeteries (WAS: Dead baby possum in the road)
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... On 9/6/2012 9:06 PM, Phoenix wrote: jmcquown wrote: I do like hanging out in cemeteries Oh good! We're not the only ones. DH and I do like to wander about in cemeteries, the older the better. Fascinating places... Deborah slave to Miss CCK I'll never forget asking my mom to don a pair of boots and go traipsing around an old cemetery back in TN. I think I was about 20 It was old, overgrown, unkempt. Obviously no caretaker. If there was ever a church it was long gone. The headstones dated back to the early 1800's, the latest we could find was from around 1950. I was fascinated by the inscriptions. There's a *very* old cemetery here on the island where I live. This place was originally an indigo and cotton plantation. The ruins of the mansion, outbuildings (and yes, slave quarters) along with the cemetery are maintained by a preservation society. Dates back to the 18th century. I was more than surprised to discover that In Germany if no-one looks after your grave for a number of years, the headstone will be gone and you are toast. When it was possible to get into the land between East & West Germany, of the graves that were left, Nüle tended all the graves of babies and children. It's one of the reasons why I love her. It's her birthday tomorrow, 9/11. Tweed |
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