New England Pragmatism
"As we now are so you must lie, Therefore in time prepare to die."
This was my favorite epitaph from our recent wander through the near-by cemetery. It managed to be prophetic, creepily morbid and rhyme in only two lines!
posted by Jill @ 04:05
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Very haunting and powerful.
How nearby is the cemetery? When we were kids in Maysville, my friend Race lived right by the cemetery. We used to wander down there a lot, get scared, and then run back to his house.
The things that creeped me out the most were the tombstones that had photos of the deceased on them, particularly because they were old black-and-white photos with a reddish tint to them, making the person in the photo look really ghoulish.
I added a pedometer link to the post so that you can see where we are in relation to the cemetery.
In case you don't want to follow that link, I'll tell you that we are .23 miles away or down the road and across the street.
Overall it's a pretty spooky cemetery. Not least of all because of the wierd crypt that looks like maybe someone was trying to get out of the bottom spots.
Ooo. That is creepy.
In high school, I helped my friend Alex map an old, decrepit cemetery on the outskirts of Tahlequah for his Eagle Scout project. Most of the graves were marked by these little tin placards from the U.S. Army; the soldiers died in the Great War.
The creepiness factor: a handful of the graves had caved in and some crypts had broken open. I stayed as far away from those as possible.
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