the Cemetery image thread....

the Cemetery in the ghost town of Elizabethtown New Mexico.


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Cool finds, Lawrence. I've biked past that cemetery several hundred times but never done more than glance in. Mt Auburn Cem is more my usual haunt, as it were.

Hi Kyle:
It's interesting. When I lived in Boston and was in Harvard Square on a regular basis, I never went into the cemetery. It really is a pretty interesting place, not as gorgeous as Mount Auburn, which of course has the advantage of being a botanical garden, but interesting historically. My mother's family has been on the South Shore since year 1, so growing up I visited lots of burial grounds with slate markers bearing images of the angel of death. Like any good New Englander (even if currently displaced) I have a taste for the things. And though they'd surely have hanged me for heresy, I probably have a deeper connection to the joyless gloom of the Puritans than I'd like to admit. Anyway, I'm in New Mexico now, and some of the angels of death on tombstones look an awful lot like Roswell aliens!
 
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