I hate to post off topic, but the movie Now and Then just played this
morning on one of the movie channels... maybe AMC or MPLEX. The movie took a lot
of geographical liberty with the location of various towns and / or town
names in Indiana. Of course nobody but a bunch of Hoosiers would know that! Not
a bad movie, not great but not bad. Like growing up in Indiana... it might
not be the most exciting place in the world, but I still call it home after
being gone for over 30 years. I am still proud to tell people I am a
Hoosier!
In a message dated 3/29/2005 8:01:53 P.M. Central Standard Time,
sharplongancestors(a)yahoo.com writes:
That is the Old Winchester Cemetery which was first used in the 1840s, it
was abandoned by the city for use in the 1880's from what I was told. I was
there last week to take pictures. It is very bad shape, only a few out of
hundreds of stones that should of been there are visiable to me. Sharon Smith,
the new treasure for the Randolph County Historical Society along with Bobby
Manning are heading a committee to clean it up and hopefully do some
restoration work there, what will be done will be determined by what can be raised in
funds to do so. I am hoping Sharon will be giving me somethings to make a
page for this project on my web-site. She played in that cemetery back in the
50s and said at the time that it was over her head in weeds, no one knew how
big it was or how many people were buried there for a long time. The
cemetery has been imortaizied in a way in the movie...Now and Then (1995). If you
watch it you will see little bits of Winchester in it, and a fictio!
n story
about one of the stones there at the cemetery. That stone is still there
but is needing reset.
The cemetery is in Winchester and is on the north side of the parking lot of
the National Guard Armory, near the intersections of Huntsville Rd and
Western Ave.
If you would like to know more about the project, you can e-mail me and I
will forward them to Sharon to respond to. Andrea Long
Katmandoux1029(a)aol.com wrote:
I wanted to inquire about a cemetery in Winchester. The location being east
Franklin Street on the South side of the street about 3 or 4 blocks from
"downtown" it was fully covered with overgrowth in the 1950s. What is the
name of
it? There was an alley way on the East side of the property.
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