Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/11

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Subject: [Leica] Achilles, Virginia
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sat Dec 11 13:46:34 2004
References: <009901c4df1d$aa76e220$0100a8c0@hal>

The first image is well ahead of the others in my book: tells the 
complete story, including that of the weather ;-)

On 11/12/2004, at 12:06 PM, Chandos Michael Brown 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
>
>
>
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Alastair


Replies: Reply from aaron.sandler at duke.edu (Aaron Sandler) ([Leica] Achilles, Virginia)
In reply to: Message from cmbrow at wm.edu (Chandos Michael Brown) ([Leica] Achilles, Virginia)