Category Archives: Travel query

My questions to locals to get the lay of the land before I travel.

Cemeteries on the Weather Channel

Grave monument damaged by a fallen tree after the Connecticut hurricane of 9/21/1938.

Grave monument damaged by a fallen tree after the Connecticut hurricane of 9/21/1938.

One of the reporters for the Weather Channel contacted me last week with some questions about how weather affects cemeteries.  The story went up on Thursday.  It’s accompanied by some beautiful photos (not mine) — and it’s added a few more destinations to my ever-growing list of graveyards I must see.

See for yourself:
http://www.weather.com/travel/weird-cemeteries-around-world-photos-20130624

Have any of your local cemeteries been affected by weather?  Droughts can change the landscape as much as flooding.  Ice storms, acid rain, lichen spurred by wet climates or desert dryness can all threaten graveyards.

Win a copy of the Cemetery Travels Notebook

You could win a copy

What’s the grave of the most famous person in the world?

That was the question that found my Cemetery Travel blog via a Google search. It’s not a question I’ve answered yet, so I turn to the vast hivemind of the internet for the answer.

Leave your vote for the most famous person’s grave in the comments below before May 6, 2012 — and you could win a copy of the Cemetery Travels Notebook.  Illustrated with photos from this blog to inspire your own cemetery explorations, the perfect-bound notebook has plenty of room for your own notes and ruminations.

You can see a sample of the Cemetery Travels Notebook here.

So tell me: what is the most famous person’s grave in the world?

ETA: The contest is closed.  The books came today and I contact the winners shortly.

Please feel free to continue to suggest the most famous person’s grave, though.  I am loving the responses.

You can order a copy of your own here: Cemetery Travels Notebook by Loren Rhoads

Cemeteries in Portland?

Can anyone recommend a pretty cemetery to visit in Portland, Oregon in May?