Oregon has about 3,000 known pioneer cemeteries - that is, those with burials prior to 1909, said Mirra Meyer, of the Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries. Local groups protect some of them, but many are in jeopardy.Parts of Laurel Grove qualify for pioneer status - the earliest ...
I was in Kingston’s spooky Hunts Bay Cemetery, located in a shantytown near the Red Stripe brewery, tramping through high grass with a dozen fellow travelers. We passed a herd of cattle that was being pecked by white egrets before finding what we were looking for: seven tombstones engraved ...
[...] We arrived here from Poland, a land of 475 cemeteries of Russian soldiers. We buried them all with dignity and with compasion. We did that because death eases hurt; and because our faith dictates it. This cemetery will remain in the care of men and women who were always fateful ...
For, by absolving me from the need either to consider practical problems of living or to maintain the many unquestioned assumptions which cannot conveniently be abandoned in social life, I had been free to drop the spectables of the near-sighted and to scan the horizon of existence. And I b...
I like historic cemeteries. They help drive home the point that the names we read in history books once belonged to real, flesh-and-blood people. Even though they have long since turned to dust. The cemetery’s pyramid. 1 Comment