If we are talking about work colleagues I have had in real life, NO lol! But I can understand for these people with a high calling it does make sense and those are great pictures!
Ooh, the Catholic secondary school I attended in South Australia had a burial ground for the nuns. One day I’ll write about a romantic meeting in those grounds.
Love all your photos! (I need to learn how to add pics like that to a post.) As for your question, I've worked so many different places... there are certain ones I'd enjoy being buried with, and others -- not so much!
My favorite workplace burial ground is the Showman's Rest in Hugo, OK. It's full of circus folk. It's not uncommon to see clown noses as grave goods!
I will check out Showman's Rest if I'm ever nearby in Oklahoma. For adding more than one picture at a time on Substack, you can click the photo icon tool and say "add gallery" rather than "add image." With the gallery, you can add up to nine photos!
Thanks for the tip, Sarah! And I'll have to dig up some pics from Hugo and post 'em for ya -- in a gallery! Hugo is a fun historic town and well worth visiting. They even have a place there for retired circus elephants.
My husband's great-grandmother Orlenah's family moved from MO to Washington DC in the late 1800s. They spent a couple years in TN en route, where Orlenah died and was buried. We knew the town, but not the cemetery. I had an old Polaroid photo from the early 60s of his grandmother visiting her mother's grave. I used Google maps to match up the cemetery, then we took a road trip, drove around the cemetery using the stones in the photo as guide, and found the grave. It was in the college cemetery for Suwanee "University of the South." Weird thing is that we have no idea how she came to be buried there. No record of anyone having worked for or attended that college. No other family buried there. The family was not Episcopal. It's a mystery.
My very Catholic undergrad institution, Providence College, has a small cemetery for the interment of the Dominican friars who run the school. It's on a small plot of land in the heart of campus, and all of the headstones are the same simple cross. Notably, during my senior year (I think? Maybe it was my junior year.) the college reburied all of the dead in order to condense their plots and get more room for the future occupants.
If we are talking about work colleagues I have had in real life, NO lol! But I can understand for these people with a high calling it does make sense and those are great pictures!
Ooh, the Catholic secondary school I attended in South Australia had a burial ground for the nuns. One day I’ll write about a romantic meeting in those grounds.
I'd love to see that story!
Me, too! Sounds intriguing. (Shades of Percy & Mary Shelley? Or am I just being naughty! lol...)
Love all your photos! (I need to learn how to add pics like that to a post.) As for your question, I've worked so many different places... there are certain ones I'd enjoy being buried with, and others -- not so much!
My favorite workplace burial ground is the Showman's Rest in Hugo, OK. It's full of circus folk. It's not uncommon to see clown noses as grave goods!
I will check out Showman's Rest if I'm ever nearby in Oklahoma. For adding more than one picture at a time on Substack, you can click the photo icon tool and say "add gallery" rather than "add image." With the gallery, you can add up to nine photos!
Thanks for the tip, Sarah! And I'll have to dig up some pics from Hugo and post 'em for ya -- in a gallery! Hugo is a fun historic town and well worth visiting. They even have a place there for retired circus elephants.
My husband's great-grandmother Orlenah's family moved from MO to Washington DC in the late 1800s. They spent a couple years in TN en route, where Orlenah died and was buried. We knew the town, but not the cemetery. I had an old Polaroid photo from the early 60s of his grandmother visiting her mother's grave. I used Google maps to match up the cemetery, then we took a road trip, drove around the cemetery using the stones in the photo as guide, and found the grave. It was in the college cemetery for Suwanee "University of the South." Weird thing is that we have no idea how she came to be buried there. No record of anyone having worked for or attended that college. No other family buried there. The family was not Episcopal. It's a mystery.
That is so interesting. Good to know too that the college cemetery is not confined to the East coast.
My very Catholic undergrad institution, Providence College, has a small cemetery for the interment of the Dominican friars who run the school. It's on a small plot of land in the heart of campus, and all of the headstones are the same simple cross. Notably, during my senior year (I think? Maybe it was my junior year.) the college reburied all of the dead in order to condense their plots and get more room for the future occupants.
Oh wow! The reburial of people is something I want to write about soon. There's much more movement of the dead than one might expect.
Oh, I’m definitely looking forward to that post!
Did you see my pic of Dr. Shurtleff’s lectures? They are so beautifully written!
I love that we were both wandering in the same spot in the Dartmouth Cemetery. 🖤❤️🪦🪦