cemetery visit

[low_delta]

Cyn and I stopped by the old cemetery on a walk in Cedarburg yesterday. I didn't have my good camera, but I shot a bunch of pics with my cellphone, just to kinda document the current state.

Raven and I recently had a discussion about the damage in them. She mentioned how they are so much better cared for in the south. In addition to a lot of vandalism, this cemetery has had a lot of deterioration.



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Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I think that when the graves get too old and the families that cared for them die out, most cemeteries just make sure the grass gets mowed and nothing is done to maintain headstones and such.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

How did you get interested in cemeteries? Was it though photography, or were you interested in them outside of camera work?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Good question. I think I started going into them because of the camera. But the interest beyond that is part of me. I like the history aspect.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I have always found them very peaceful. Of course the rock attracts me, as all rocks do, but I think it is the manicured area as well. I hate that I never visited cemeteries when I lived out west or while up north, because I just assumed ALL cemeteries were cared for like they are all over the south. Although that only flat headstones so they can be mowed over thing I found really ODD, and sort of ugly.

Alaska was a different animal. You could only bury people when the permafrost was melted, (up where I was) so bodies had to be stored. Also, there isn't the "ick" factor of dead bodies in the... mythology? society? tabu culture? Whatever it is, in the thought process of the natives up there, so children played in the cemeteries in the native villages. If grandma or grandpa stuck up out of the ground from the heaving, well, it wasn't really a big deal. When the ground thawed, they were stuck back in again, but no one paid it much mind.

Now, GERMAN cemeteries I LOVED, and they did have the sunken markers, and broken pieces and such, but they were so damn old, much like what you photographed on your trip. They were also really small, because of the lack of real estate.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

They're like parks. Quiet. And with historical things to read and ponder.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

And dead folks resting.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Our local cemetery also suffers from random vandalism.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It is unfortunately common.