Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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