[Leica] Achilles, Virginia

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

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:

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> 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.
>
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> http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins01.htm
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> http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins02.htm
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> http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins03.htm
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> http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins04.htm
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> Comments, etc.
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> Chandos
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