On Cemeteries
Sunday 03/13/2005 5:56 PM
 Looking up over the back wall, outside the Vysehrad cemetery in Prague. (2003) File Under: I Took This Photo!; Prague; Travel; Vysehrad Cemetery |
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Today's image marks the beginning of a multi-day discussion of cemeteries.
A lot of people probably go through a morbid infatuation with cemeteries at some point in their life. I certainly did and have returned to it time and time again.
Whether it was the mysterious fenced-in, overgrown plot of land on the edge of the Apalachicola National Forest, helping a girlfriend look for a witch's grave in the Old City Cemetery or visiting Vysehrad in Prague, boneyards have always held a certain fascination over me.
For the moment I'll start with the now — or at least the recently now.
Years ago, when I was walking the dogs at The Greenway, I ran into someone who told me about an old abandoned cemetery hidden in the woods. I knew that whole stretch of forest and fields pretty well, having run along every path I could find and into the woods in many a place, but I had never seen graves or the like. I kept looking for it off and on over the years, but finally gave up.
Well, yesterday, Grandma and I took Sheriff to The Greenway and, in addition to me getting my first sunburn in years, we found the graveyard!
It's pretty dilapidated, but I can't wait to go back with my camera. Most of the graves appear to be for people born in the mid to late 1800's who died in the early 1900's.
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More tomorrow on a potter's field long in my life and recently rediscovered.
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