Tuesday, June 5, 2012

not the way to go

I have already complained about memorial parks. In many, there are virtually only markers flush to the ground. Which makes it easy to cut the grass. The uniform grade makes it difficult in finding graves. If it were not for veteran groups placing disposal flags at veterans' graves it would be the same vista as an empty field.
Some people call this stone 'a sinker' when it is swallowed by the ground. The ground cover edges over the stone. It needs a grass haircut and brush. If the deceased's loved one doesn't police the site, it becomes invisible. The one above is not from a stepping stone graveyard, but imagine a field of thousands like this. Fewer, and fewer people will come.
This in Cleveland's Old Brooklyn Cemetery. They have some explanatory signs that are properly descriptive (Slovak Lutheran), silly (Roselawn, Sermon on the Mount), and ones like these, which sound like warehouse utilitarian shorthand.

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