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[pennyJo1960]

@Alaskan beautiful work on that the scroll is perfect

 

[Beer can]

Here's an article about it. Since it was so popular they are doing 2 this year - the first was last weekend.

http://www.moca-me.org/MOCA-News/4192483

I will take pictures and share, of course.

So, whatcha do to get community service?

That's pretty cool SCG, wish they'd do that around here, have quite a few that could use some major sprucing up. Pioneer cemetery in town dates back to the civil war, pretty sad some people complained cause the town workers had taken over mowing it and it isn't on town property, it was a bunch of crap, I was about to volunteer to mow it and I don't even live in town when one of them said they would still do it on their own time. A youth residential center Camp Brace home for juvenile delinquents from the city (much better for them than sending them to prison) took care of it for many many years, place closed in '08, shame, was a good program for them.
Quite a few small cemeteries on private property, there is one just up the road from us by a huge pond we fish in often. One out in the middle of our state forest, kinda spooky. Even the bigger in use cemeteries have some broke and bad stones. Pretty sad.
Might sound morbid but I've always liked checking out old stones, reading the names dates some with little sayings, lot of history there. DW drags me out every mothers day and we make the rounds sprucing up and planting new flowers on her families stones and my gramma's. Then we do a 'tour', check out the stones. One of her great uncles is buried in the same cemetery as her grandparents, but they planted him on the opposite side of the stone, she said it was the German way, IDK, different, only one in our town like that.
I actually used to sell a few base stones every yr when I cut bluestone, my dad still does, fraction of the price others charge, $20 usually, for a stone we would normally throw in the rubbish pile for being to thick, just cost us a little blade wear and a little time, and bluestone last forever.

 

[Alaskan]

I love walking through the old cemeteries.. Lots of fun.

I actually have relatives buried up your way Beer can.. From my mom's side, they came over real early, just a couple of years after the Mayflower and are buried all over those parts before they moved to the Ohio valley when it opened up to farming...then Chicago...then Texas.

Anyway, I looked it up, a couple were buried in Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York. not sure if that is close to you or not.

 

[Beer can]

I love walking through the old cemeteries.. Lots of fun.

I actually have relatives buried up your way Beer can.. From my mom's side, they came over real early, just a couple of years after the Mayflower and are buried all over those parts before they moved to the Ohio valley when it opened up to farming...then Chicago...then Texas.

Anyway, I looked it up, a couple were buried in Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York. not sure if that is close to you or not.

That's way up, I'm on the left side of the Catskill mountains. I've been as far up as the middle of the Adirondacks of course, that's farther, been many times to Pulaski salmon fishing when I was younger, that's pretty close.
I saw there is a Dutch Settlement road there on Google maps, were they Dutch? My family also came over shortly after the Mayflower (maybe we are related?), 1644, had a little house in New Amsterdam , right near where NASDAQ is now, for a short time then moved north amoungst the indians.
Was actually just reading recently that way back then, his sons got into the tanning business and moved to this area cause it had a lot of hemlock? trees used in tanning, read the women and children lived in a cabin and the men and boys lived in caves

and my kids freak out when the internet goes out....
There was a battleship named after my family, a destroyer built in Chickasaw Alabama and launched in 1943 named after the captain of the battleship Arizona when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (exploded and sank him and 1,177 in his crew). The ship named for him saw a lot of action between Okinawa, WWII and the Korean war, wasn't scrapped until '87.

 

[room onthebroom]

So, whatcha do to get community service?

That's pretty cool SCG, wish they'd do that around here, have quite a few that could use some major sprucing up. Pioneer cemetery in town dates back to the civil war, pretty sad some people complained cause the town workers had taken over mowing it and it isn't on town property, it was a bunch of crap, I was about to volunteer to mow it and I don't even live in town when one of them said they would still do it on their own time. A youth residential center Camp Brace home for juvenile delinquents from the city (much better for them than sending them to prison) took care of it for many many years, place closed in '08, shame, was a good program for them.
Quite a few small cemeteries on private property, there is one just up the road from us by a huge pond we fish in often. One out in the middle of our state forest, kinda spooky. Even the bigger in use cemeteries have some broke and bad stones. Pretty sad.
Might sound morbid but I've always liked checking out old stones, reading the names dates some with little sayings, lot of history there. DW drags me out every mothers day and we make the rounds sprucing up and planting new flowers on her families stones and my gramma's. Then we do a 'tour', check out the stones. One of her great uncles is buried in the same cemetery as her grandparents, but they planted him on the opposite side of the stone, she said it was the German way, IDK, different, only one in our town like that.
I actually used to sell a few base stones every yr when I cut bluestone, my dad still does, fraction of the price others charge, $20 usually, for a stone we would normally throw in the rubbish pile for being to thick, just cost us a little blade wear and a little time, and bluestone last forever.

I love walking through the old cemeteries.. Lots of fun.

I actually have relatives buried up your way Beer can.. From my mom's side, they came over real early, just a couple of years after the Mayflower and are buried all over those parts before they moved to the Ohio valley when it opened up to farming...then Chicago...then Texas.

Anyway, I looked it up, a couple were buried in Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York. not sure if that is close to you or not.

I cant believe you guys enjoy that too.

I've always wanted to get into stone rubbing & exploring the 'Magnificent Seven' in London is high on my bucket list. I love the pic of the stone with the vines!

 

[room onthebroom]

That's way up, I'm on the left side of the Catskill mountains. I've been as far up as the middle of the Adirondacks of course, that's farther, been many times to Pulaski salmon fishing when I was younger, that's pretty close.
I saw there is a Dutch Settlement road there on Google maps, were they Dutch? My family also came over shortly after the Mayflower (maybe we are related?), 1644, had a little house in New Amsterdam , right near where NASDAQ is now, for a short time then moved north amoungst the indians.
Was actually just reading recently that way back then, his sons got into the tanning business and moved to this area cause it had a lot of hemlock? trees used in tanning, read the women and children lived in a cabin and the men and boys lived in caves

and my kids freak out when the internet goes out....
There was a battleship named after my family, a destroyer built in Chickasaw Alabama and launched in 1943 named after the captain of the battleship Arizona when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (exploded and sank him and 1,177 in his crew). The ship named for him saw a lot of action between Okinawa, WWII and the Korean war, wasn't scrapped until '87.

Wow! That's amazing! I love real life historical stories!

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Often times the term Dutch was a misunderstanding. Usually they were German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland_(disambiguation)

deb

 

[Kusanar]

At least he didn't hit it with a root rake

We don't have one... probably the only reason he didn't.... to be fair, the cemetary is fenced, but this one guy wouldn't fit in the existing area, so they just stuck him outside of the fence... technically I don't own the cemetary, but I own the land all the way around it, and I own the land that HE is on because he is outside of the main plot. From what I have been able to tell, there are 15 people in there, several kids, but they don't all have stones so I don't know exactly.

 

[Peep_Show]

When DH and I vacationed in Woodstock, VT, we spent an afternoon driving the countryside. Old, old cemeteries dot the landscape and walking through them and reading the tombstones was fascinating. Husbands had their wives buried on either side of them along with the multitudes of children who often succumbed to illness and the misfortune of playing in the road when the stagecoach came through. In that neck of the wood they spent all year getting ready for winter, so I'm sure -- along with being pregnant most of their married lives -- the wives died of exhaustion.

 

[perchie.girl]

When DH and I vacationed in Woodstock, VT, we spent an afternoon driving the countryside. Old, old cemeteries dot the landscape and walking through them and reading the tombstones was fascinating. Husbands had their wives buried on either side of them along with the multitudes of children who often succumbed to illness and the misfortune of playing in the road when the stagecoach came through. In that neck of the wood they spent all year getting ready for winter, so I'm sure -- along with being pregnant most of their married lives -- the wives died of exhaustion.

not unheard of for women to go through twenty or more pregnancies... My Great Grandma had nine that lived and two that didnt make it so eleven pregnancies. Great grandma was fourteen when she married a Widower who was in his early thirties and had two children... age twelve and eleven. His first wife committed suicide. She was his cousin too.

That was the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s. When medical knowledge was further along than in the Colonial times.

deb