tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post5390571894214281100..comments2024-03-28T18:40:05.789-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: WHISPERS FROM THE PASTJim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-46280861136831643942013-08-20T17:52:18.247-04:002013-08-20T17:52:18.247-04:00hi, do you know how to contact the people who main...hi, do you know how to contact the people who maintain Pioneer Cemetary? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08682006014204799930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-83794145413417551512012-07-12T21:29:21.003-04:002012-07-12T21:29:21.003-04:00I love cemeteries too! I recently went on a histor...I love cemeteries too! I recently went on a history walk with a history professor from University of California and I found the stories of the dead fascinating. I love imaging what others lives were about so long ago. I was amazed at the amount of folks who signed up for this history walk. I can't wait to go again! This would seem natural for one who enjoys murder mysteries to like cemeteries as well. Great blog!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-15832987095774619062012-07-12T14:25:22.427-04:002012-07-12T14:25:22.427-04:00Kara, I have yet to visit Nova Scotia, but would l...Kara, I have yet to visit Nova Scotia, but would like to someday. <br /><br />It's funny because when I first started visiting cemeteries in earnest for a paper I was working on for a folklore class in college, I'd take a friend or a family member along and soon they became as fascinated with it as I was. It's almost like a treasure hunt exploring old cemeteries.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-59997261630137780732012-07-12T14:01:48.588-04:002012-07-12T14:01:48.588-04:00I receive a history lesson every time I walk throu...I receive a history lesson every time I walk through an older cemetery.<br /><br />The last one I visited was in Halifax, Nova Scotia. General Ross, who burned Washington D.C. in the war of 1812, is buried there. Not knowing much about this war and wondering why a British general would be buried in Nova Scotia, I went on to learn about the huge role Canada played in the war of 1812.Kara Cerisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16484336785514235707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-23311750317631017122012-07-12T13:26:24.455-04:002012-07-12T13:26:24.455-04:00It gets quite hard to read stones older than what ...It gets quite hard to read stones older than what you read, Pat, and even those are hard to read because of pollution. I felt an incredible amount of sadness when I visited Gettsburg and the same with Arlington. It reflects how horrible war is, and the sad part is, we don't seem to have learned how to live in peace. At least, we don't seem to glorify war as was done in the past. It might be because the media is able to show in real time the horrors that once most people only read about.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-79421520218335342382012-07-12T11:54:05.677-04:002012-07-12T11:54:05.677-04:00I'm not much for visiting cemeteries either, t...I'm not much for visiting cemeteries either, though I've been to Gettysburg and Arlington. OTOH, I have quite a few pictures of a cemetery in Meridian MS where my daughter's ancestors are buried. Oldest that we can read is 1858.<br />PatgPatghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01046665022709722606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-5096123840676375702012-07-12T11:23:20.257-04:002012-07-12T11:23:20.257-04:00I'm a rabid genealogist and worked professiona...I'm a rabid genealogist and worked professionally as one for a while (now I just write about it). I cannot stay out of cemeteries, and when I get lost driving around here, somehow I usually find myself in front of a cemetery. Go figure. The earliest burial of a relative I've found was before 1700. I visit because I feel I'm honoring the dead, so that they're not forgotten.<br /><br />And that cemetery with Thoreau, Hawthorne, Alcott and Emerson (Sleepy Hollow in Concord)? I own a plot just down the hill from them. That way I can be assured I'll have visitors in the future.Sheila Connollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165644581595919711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-84943964312641492252012-07-12T10:10:47.381-04:002012-07-12T10:10:47.381-04:00I understand, Linda. I also have had to visit ceme...I understand, Linda. I also have had to visit cemeteries for funerals, including that of my son and granddaughter. It's the old ones with stories to tell that interest me.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-32721670080359471702012-07-12T10:02:50.975-04:002012-07-12T10:02:50.975-04:00I'm not a big cemetery visitor, Gloria. I'...I'm not a big cemetery visitor, Gloria. I've had to do so much of it in my day for actual deaths (often of people dying way too young) that I prefer to pass on them otherwise. It's like hospitals for me. I've had to be in them and visit so many in ICU, etc., that I avoid them whenever I can.Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-65462951428313834962012-07-12T09:25:04.030-04:002012-07-12T09:25:04.030-04:00Jim, I'm writing down the names of those cemet...Jim, I'm writing down the names of those cemeteries, especially the one in Boston for the next time I go there. My parents visited family cemeteries, too, especially for Decoration Day (Now Memorial Day) to put flowers on the graves. I keep up that tradition, at least for my parents, son and granddaughter. <br /><br />EB, you have quite a family history. Visiting the past isn't for everyone, I understand. I look to the future, too, but still like anything historical.<br /><br />Alyx, that must have been a awesome tombstone you described. Did you get a picture of it?<br /><br />Judy, I'm thinking that visit to the Gower Peninsula and the cemetery inspired your writing, didn't it. Maybe someday you'll get the book or books you wrote taking place there published. I hope so.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-34119274150770445462012-07-12T09:12:11.863-04:002012-07-12T09:12:11.863-04:00I enjoyed this, Gloria. I've had fun looking ...I enjoyed this, Gloria. I've had fun looking at old graves on the Gower Peninsula in Wales, speculating about those folks. Some of the old grave inscriptions tell stories, more than nowadays? Cheers, Judy HoganJudy Hoganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17555366164892868898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-45824120815701981992012-07-12T08:33:59.347-04:002012-07-12T08:33:59.347-04:00I love cemeteries, too, Gloria! Wherever I travel...I love cemeteries, too, Gloria! Wherever I travel, I always make sure to visit a cemetery or two & take tons of photos.<br /><br />I find them to be very serene, & yes, the stories you can find on the residents are quite profound. I once saw a tombstone that looked like a Scrabble board, & had words placed on it that described the boy for whom it was made. It was very cool & poignant.Alyx Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815592165482269572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-52613667108612170642012-07-12T07:52:42.705-04:002012-07-12T07:52:42.705-04:00My family has graves in four cemeteries spanning b...My family has graves in four cemeteries spanning back to preRevolutionary days. There are several family members who keep track of our history. We have photos, documents and newspaper articles. <br /><br />I'm glad they do, but I'm not one of them. I've read it all so as not to repeat a sorted, sorry history and am reverent of the past, but I have little interest in it and have little time for walking through graveyards. <br /><br />I'm looking to the future, my kids' future, and what I can do to better it. I ask, what's next? Every family needs those who look back, but they also need those who are guardians of the future.E. B. Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16746747050278597888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-49467773993319002482012-07-12T07:01:07.639-04:002012-07-12T07:01:07.639-04:00We love to ramble through old cemeteries, especial...We love to ramble through old cemeteries, especially those designed in the 1800s as arboretums. Mt. Auburn Cemetery outside Boston, Spring Grove in Cincinnati and Bonaventure in Savannah.<br /><br />It all started with Dad's annual cemetery tour where we would spend a Saturday visiting all the cemeteries containing relatives in a three-county area of New York State. While he and Mom were pulling weeds and uprighting stones, I would read inscriptions.<br /><br />The dates alone tell stories: Mothers dying the day a child was born. Whole families passing away from disease in a one-week period.<br /><br />And then there are the rows and rows and rows of white stones, most with names and outfit but many only marked as Uknown US Soldier, at the Andersonville, GA National Cemetery.<br /><br />Even thinking of them brings a stillness to my heart.<br /><br />~ JimJim Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-9405220685093986392012-07-12T06:22:16.591-04:002012-07-12T06:22:16.591-04:00I'll have to do that, Warren. My father was ex...I'll have to do that, Warren. My father was exempted from going because he was in a sensitive job producing shells and had two kids, but two of his brothers fought in the war. One parachuted in at the D-Day invasion and the other was in Africa and Italy. In Italy a good friend was killed beside him. Both of them lived, but I don't remember them talking about the war. <br /><br />One of the next trips to Europe that my daughter and I plan to do is England. We were there years ago, and both of us want to return.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-74540193055262345582012-07-12T06:07:45.227-04:002012-07-12T06:07:45.227-04:00If you have the chance to visit the graves of the ...If you have the chance to visit the graves of the soldiers who fought and died on and after the D-Day invasion of Europe in WWII, I suggest you visit all the national cemeteries. The English cemetery officials apparently allowed the families of the soldiers to chose the inscription in the tombstone. The sentiments covered the whole range of human emotion, sadness, pride, patriotism, searing anger and bitterness about the loss. Reading them brought tears to my eyes and I have remembered the occasion ever since.Warren Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789270258599769915noreply@blogger.com