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Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel by Loren Rhoads
35 travel essays about visiting 50 cemeteries. You can order the book directly from Amazon. Just click on the cover.
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Need a place to record your own cemetery adventures? This notebook contains photos from Cemetery Travel and 85 blank lined pages.
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Tag Archives: children’s grave
How the Forgotten Angels Saved My Life
by Emerian Rich I’ll be the first one to admit that in my twenties, I was lost. I had just graduated from college. During the first recession in my adult life, I lost all three design jobs I held. With … Continue reading
Death’s Garden: Ghost in the Graveyard
by Benjamin Scuglia Do you remember when you realized you were growing up? I do. I was about twelve years old. My brothers and our friends were playing a game called ghost-in-the-graveyard. Ghost-in-the-graveyard is pretty much hide-and-seek, with a macabre … Continue reading
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Tagged children's grave, Deaths Garden, ghost story
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Death’s Garden: A Message In the Grass
by Patricia Merewether I practically ran the six blocks from my elementary school to our street. I was ten years old. Two events made it nearly impossible for me to focus on the chalkboard or Sister Grace Esther’s lessons that … Continue reading
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Tagged children's grave, Michigan cemetery, Pat Merewether
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Today my brother would have been 49
The wind ruffles the leaves, making a gentle rustle that seems to echo my breath. It’s a sound so gentle it is no sound, or else it’s the sound of the sea, of the blood, of life in its inexhaustible … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetery essay
Tagged Bendle Cemetery, children's grave, family graves, Michigan cemetery
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition
This week’s photo challenge is to show two things side by side that comment on each other. I like the juxtaposition of the broken rosebud on the gravestone beside the lovely pink rosebush behind it. Broken buds like this one … Continue reading
