friday is date night

[low_delta]

We saw old things tonight.


I just discovered a cemetery near our house, that I had been unaware of, so we drove over to have a look. Then we drove into Cedarburg to have a short walk, and maybe a drink.



After we saw the Lincoln, we went to a brew pub to have a brew (just one, and Cyn had it). The place is in the basement of an old mill. To get into the bar, you have to walk across a bridge over the millrace. The water pours out of what used to house the turbine that generated the power. Cyn has a bit of a phobia of dark pools of water, especially concrete ones. This is a fairly dank place, and we were there at dusk, so it was dark too. It's a ten-second exposure. It's kinda blurry, but I didn't want to scare Cyn, so it's behind the cut.

Comments

[blonnie.livejournal.com]

lol!
*shivers*

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

:D
That last photo is great!

(sorry, Cyn)
;)

Where is the cemetery? When we went to your first open house we took a wrong turn somewhere and Lynda ended up driving into a little cemetery to turn around.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

When you get off the freeway, instead of turning north to get to our house, you turn south, and go about a quarter mile. It's called Old Settlers Rest, and it's down a long lane, away from the road. There's another little cemetery at the intersection right by our house. That's probably the one she turned around in.

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

These cemeteries you show photos of all have standing stones. Is that normal for your area of the country or are they old cemeteries? I am afraid all modern cemeteries in this area have flat stones on the ground so they can be mowed. You have to go way out in the country to find any old standing stones. They are pretty.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Click on the pic to see more. In the marble era, those narrow, square towers were common, or if you didn't have any money, a simple marble slab, like in the last pic.

When they started using granite, probably in the thirties, most of the stones looked like the three in the left in the seventh picture. Or maybe the Zuelsdorf stone. They came in various sizes. You can see some large granite stones in that first pic (one on the left, one on the right, and one just to the left of the tree). There's also this kind (http://www.kevcyn.net/galleries/galcem/gra-chi-0308-maude.jpg), which is smaller, and not uncommon.

And occasionally, we see the kind that is set into the ground. And the most common kind and size for recent graves (in my lifetime) is the kind in the grouping of three in that seventh pic.

See also: my website (http://www.kevcyn.net/galleries/galcem/galcemozke1.html) for more pics of graves from the turn of the century.

Click on the pic to see more

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

GREAT photos! I didn't realize lj photos could be a magic button to get to more. *grin*

Re: Click on the pic to see more

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Magical Easter eggs!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Cyn's dad is in a military cemetery where all the stones are set into the ground.

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

My great grandmother is buried in the military section of a large cemetery. All the headstones in that one are flat and the same size. The rest of the cemetery has flat stones, but they are not regulated in size. One of her husbands (not my great grandfather) was a vet, so they allowed her in. I remember someone in the family saying that her age (108) was a factor for letting her be buried there, but I could not figure out why.

Isn't it interesting that most military cemeteries have those flat stones, but the national cemeteries that are maintained by the military have the upright lined up crosses?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I went to look at the upright stones (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/images/ANC_surroundings/PAGES/image39.html) at Arlington, and found pictures of some graves with spouses (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/images/ANC_surroundings/PAGES/image47.html). It would appear that not just anyone can have his spouse buried with him. I would guess that if there's any sort of thing about you that's interesting, you can get in - a general, near world record age, whatever. No hard and fast rule about it.

As an aside, I found a pic of Bobby Kennedy's grave (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/images/ANC_surroundings/PAGES/image28.html).

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

WOW!! Why is Bobby not surrounded? Nice placement!

Great grandmother was an 8 year old during Cherokee removal (that would be trail of tears to everyone else) so that is another "interesting thing" about her life, other than her age at death.

She was a really cool woman. Right up until a week before she passed.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Here's what the average cemetery looks like, around here. Notice the newer section, and the older section.

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

See, those are what we call upright markers, and most around here don't allow those any more. Of course, more and more in this area cemeteries are becoming privately owned, and run by corporations.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

They don't allow them? Why, because they have to mow around them? Lame. A lot of places disallow anthing on the ground besides the stones, but this one had quite a lot of flowers planted. I was surprised at how well tended it is.

Which ones are disallowing them, the private ones?

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

Most cemeteries, not just the private ones. Upright stones are still allowed in some older parts of city cemeteries,and in old church cemeteries, but you can't rely on those old cemeteries to be taken care of. Most corporate owned or large cemeteries (I am thinking of the ones in Savannah) don't allow anything that cannot be run over with a lawn mower. It has to be flat against the ground, and if you want a coping, it has to be a ground level too.. so nobody has to break out a weedeater to keep it neat.

There is a larger and larger movement to establish family cemeteries on private land, so there aren't the restrictions to stones.. but that takes a bit of red tape paperwork, and they have to be on privately owned family land, and there is no city entity to care for them. Still, it can be done.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It's kinda sad, I think, that they're all driven by money so much that people can't have even the simple monuments they want. But I guess there's not as much money down there as there is up here.

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

That is true in all things.

[mellary4.livejournal.com]

Poor Cyn! It has such big eyes. "The better to see you my dear!"

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

LOL!!! The eyes!!

[vocalista001.livejournal.com]

LOL...those eyes!!

So did Cyn walk across the bridge with her eyes shut?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

No, it actually didn't seem to bother her. She took her own pictures of it (better than mine). Btw, it's actually less a bridge, than a walkway with a railing on one side. And the railing is sort of a bar, where people can stand and put their drinks, though I can't imagine anybody actually doing that.

[vocalista001.livejournal.com]

I really like your other photos too.

The shadows in the cemetery with the branching tree. Pretty.

The clean white classy car.

Nice.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

Okay......even with the googly eyes, it's scary.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

You would have loved it there. Walking in the dark, on a walkway over dark gushing water, who knows how deep...I'll do a lot for a beer. I'm going to post about that part of our evening next. Stay tuned! *L*

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking if I'd been there, much hilarity would ensue.
Then I'd find a counselor to cry on.

[emschin.livejournal.com]

Your interest in cemeteries, and your wonderful photography are a real gift to all of us. I'm so happy to claim you as a family member!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

:-)