Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I didn't know there is a town with my name in Virginia! :-) I guess I'll have to visit it one of these days. --- Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu> wrote: > > > The part of Gloucester County that I live in is > locally known as Guinea, > for complicated reasons. It's very flat and > coastal: tidal marshes, > swamps and pine barrens abound, all of which make it > difficult to set a > coffin in the ground and to keep it there. > > This is the cemetery adjacent the Baptist Church in > Achilles, Virginia, > a little less than a half mile from my house. All > of the graves are > capped in concrete, some more decoratively than > others, following the > theory that the added weight will prevent coffins > from pushing to the > surface when the shallow water table rises. > > I was blessed (?) with a wonderfully garish winter > light in the clear > space between two advancing fronts this afternoon, > so I splashed among > the headstones. > > I don't know how common is this practice, but I find > it interesting. > > > http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins01.htm > > http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins02.htm > > http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins03.htm > > http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins04.htm > > > > Comments, etc. > > Chandos > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com