I have been lost in that link for almost 30 minutes... then I ventured to Google images and found soem facinating pictures of that place.
It is now on my list of things to see in my lifetime..
Im curious.
What is a good google word combination for finding large cemetaries?
I have tried - Large , many acres, big, mile / miles long ..
and I am essentially finding the same handfull over and over.
Dunno. You mean in images, or web? How about major cemetaries list?
Probably a good place to start would be to spell
cemetery correctly.
[Reyn ducks as objects are thrown]
And I spent a long time on the Venice photographs..
You're right, Reyn...
Heh, right as Reyn..
shewolfnm wrote:Im curious.
What is a good google word combination for finding large cemetaries?
I have tried - Large , many acres, big, mile / miles long ..
and I am essentially finding the same handfull over and over.
Start with the links given in the
wiki entry. That will finally lead you dozens of more links.
Walter Hinteler wrote:littlek wrote:
Makes me want to go out an take pix. Unfortunately, the landscape here and now (new england winter) isn't so appealing.
Same here - and additionally, the cemetary in my native town isn't that old (those here are much newer - people don't keep their family burial places longer than 30, 40 years nowadays).
Since the weather is fine today, I just made a couple of photos from my native town's cemeteries. I'll either post them here (if shewolfnm doesn't mind) or on the other cemetery thread later today.
Just saw this thread. Interesting stuff shewolf. My 2 cents is that the early pages showed some pix of the "pauper" graves. I believe that they were made of marble, since it was less expensive to carve marble than it was to cast concrete without some really specialized vibrators and mold making.
Can you get a pic of the first few (one with a Sarah on it). If they have stone chunks inside the breaks then its concrete, if it looks like whitish sand, its probably marble.
I used to do rubbings of slate tombstones in MAine . I was especially interested in the stones of sailors who were lost at sea. So their tones merely marked a spot in which no one was interred. They usually had some interesting stories of the ship, the place of its sinking, and the circumstances (war, storm, etc)
I went back to see wich one you are talking about , and all my computer shows is little red x's.
Im beside myself over this and I hope it is just a fluke...
but are all the pictures still visable?
can you quote the post you are talking about so I can tell wich one it is you want to see more of?
Shewolf, it was post number 2479407. It was your second post
Quote:The pauper section is full of small stones with too much information.
Small pieces of concrete that people tried to place an entire family
history on, with only a pocket knife, and some cases what appears to be lead pencil.
There are only a few that have survived over the years.
Some have absolutly no information on them, but beautiful carvings.
Then.. some have only initials.
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Hm, how do i copy an image from a previous post? The images are all still there shewolf. I just failed to bring them over, I hit the quote button, should I have hit img?
shewolfnm wrote:The pauper section is full of small stones with too much information.
Small pieces of concrete that people tried to place an entire family
history on, with only a pocket knife, and some cases what appears to be lead pencil.
There are only a few that have survived over the years.
Some have absolutly no information on them, but beautiful carvings.
Then.. some have only initials.
Me too, testing. What's that Farmerdude's problem?
Too much corn..
Besides the fact that it is 29-31 degrees today, I would have taken more pictures of that headstone .
But I promise to have it done by the end of the week so you can better see the stone Farmerman.
its just a bit too cold and wet today..
Since the weather was fine today, I took some photos of
my hometown's cemeteries :wink:
farmerman wrote: I was especially interested in the stones of sailors who were lost at sea. So their tones merely marked a spot in which no one was interred. They usually had some interesting stories of the ship, the place of its sinking, and the circumstances (war, storm, etc)
I found one of those as well.
There is a really long story on the front, but it is so faded you can no longer read it.
It does say, on the first line ' Memorial to '
