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On Friday, September 25, 2020 at 7:40:14 PM UTC-5, Radey Shouman wrote:
Frank Krygowski writes: On 9/23/2020 1:52 PM, jbeattie wrote: The dead people are interesting there, too, Henry Weinhardt and his family, https://tinyurl.com/yxbqyqsc Virgil Earp (Wyatt's brother) and some others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil..._Headstone.jpg Like most things in the West, it is not nearly as old as things in the East. I'm sure you guys have dead people going way back. We do. This is the southeast corner of the Connecticut Western Reserve, the portion of Ohio "reserved" or retained by Connecticut when the new United States decided to settle conflicting claims to "western" land by saying it belonged to the federal government and would eventually become new states. We're "Town One, Range One" of the Western Reserve and one of the first places settled in Ohio. One of our local cemeteries has guys who fought in the Revolutionary War. Not long ago I found myself in center Concord, MA. Needing water, and having found the fountains at Walden pond to be out of service, I went to the visitor center. Being in a very crunchy town this facility has a map of local water fountains so that visitors can limit their use of ecociding disposable water bottles. Naturally their own water fountain was disabled, perhaps as an anti-covid measure. So I went to Sleepy Hollow cemetery, a few blocks away. Who knew that Washington Irving didn't make it up? Their water taps are reliable and refreshing, and I availed myself. Like most cemeteries in New England, it's built on a hilly site, presumably one that no one wanted to farm. Lots of literary names on the stones. The funny thing about America is that everybody and his great aunt Mabel think it's natural that their remains should take up space in a cemetery somewhere *forever*. In places with more history this is obviously just silly. One has to be really famous to camp on a burial plot for more than a few hundred years. -- Rodney Dangerfield in the movie Caddyshack. "Cemeteries and golf courses are the worst waste of land in America." Or something like that. |
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