I'm sure Olbear won't mind if I post this here. Showing the kind of
aptitude we sometimes must contend with.
Lois
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:49:35 -0700
From: Olbear <olbear(a)MBAY.NET>
Subject: Cemetery Preservation
To: INROOTS-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU
>An item from The New York Times, Sunday, November 2, 1997, page 33,
>"Metropolitan Diary" By Ron Alexander:
>
>An older friend, recently returned from her home town in North
>Carolina, says they've spruced up the churchyard cemetery since her last
>visit several years back. "Lots of new greenery," she said. "And
>families are together now."
>
>"Together?" I asked, puzzled.
>
>"Well, years ago they never much worried where they buried
>someone because everyone was a neighbor anyhow. They'd just dig a grave
>wherever it seemed to balance things. But they've redone it so people
>are with their children and grandchildren, instead of scattered."
>
>"You mean they exhumed all those people and re-buried them?"
>
>"Oh no," she said. "They just shifted the headstones. Everyone
>agrees it looks ever so much nicer."