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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2009 1:47:46 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 4, 2009 2:13:12 GMT
Wow. It's beautiful and peaceful and old -- and really plain! It's strange to see a cemetery with no flowers or stone vases or anything. Is that because of a maintenance rule, or because there is no one from those families left to visit the graves?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2009 3:31:10 GMT
Oh, many of the same families are there. There are several generations of the founding fathers still living there. I guess it's a WASP thing. Many of the old New England cemeteries are this way. When I lived in Boston I used to go on some road trips all over and remember seeing many similar graveyards. Many of the same names as well. Curiously,one of Peter Mathiessen's wives is buried in this cemetery and neither she nor he are from there. Their house though ,is just a few yards away so she must have requested it and he got special permission somehow.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 5, 2009 0:46:27 GMT
I live just across the street from a really beautiful old cemetery and often walk my dog there. I don't think I've ever taken photos though- not sure why. I really should. It's nothing like as old as that one though, I think the oldest burial I've found is from the 1840s.
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Post by happytraveller on Oct 5, 2009 18:59:33 GMT
I just came back home from our old house in the mountains, that's overlooking the cemetery. Should have taken some pictures, there are some rather old graves too !
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Post by imec on Oct 7, 2009 3:43:58 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 7, 2009 4:10:34 GMT
Gaudet! LaPorte! Landry! It's like being in sw Louisiana!
Beautiful cemetery and beautiful pictures, Imec. You really captured that rich autumn light.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2009 10:44:53 GMT
Yes,many of the names are very familiar Louisiana names one sees here. Beautiful shots imec,the statuary in particular is gorgeous. Is this a Catholic cemetery,or is it mixed denominations?
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Post by imec on Oct 7, 2009 12:41:48 GMT
Thanks. It's a Catholic Cemetery. The only church in St. Norbert is the Catholic one. St. Norbert is also home to Manitoba's oldest surviving open air chapel. I'll post some more pics when I have time.
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Post by fumobici on Oct 7, 2009 15:51:25 GMT
Love those cemetery photos, some very impressive stone work on the monuments and statuary.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2009 20:27:08 GMT
Nice pictures. So peaceful looking. I have taken some pics of the cemetery in the city here, but can't find them now. I'll take some new ones next time I'm there and post them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2009 20:36:34 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 12, 2009 20:46:52 GMT
Beautiful photos of a tragically sad scene, Kerouac.
What are the little bushes planted on the Verdun graves?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2009 5:12:30 GMT
Every grave has a rose bush.
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Post by happytraveller on Oct 14, 2009 5:41:39 GMT
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Post by happytraveller on Oct 14, 2009 5:43:54 GMT
Prazeres, Lisbon. Cats seem to love it there, there were lots of cats, all looking quite healthy and well fed. Somebody must look after them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 10:27:52 GMT
Beautiful shots HT. These graves or crypts above ground are so similar to the graves here in NOLA. They are that way here because we are below sea level. Curious to see this somewhere else. If it ever stops raining here I will get out and about and take some pics to compare.
I love the shot with the cats.
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Post by happytraveller on Oct 14, 2009 11:14:12 GMT
Thank you Casimira. It was kind of an eerie place... There was one grave(?) where a curtain was caught in the door so part of the curtain was outside, slowly moving in the wind. I video taped it, it looks kind of spooky ! I loved it there
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2009 12:41:18 GMT
There is an eeriness that I find somehow comforting. But, not always. It certainly depends upon the nature of my being there.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 18:49:56 GMT
decayed New Orleans cemetery vault
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 19:00:42 GMT
Looks like there is room for new tenants!
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Post by spindrift on Nov 5, 2009 19:10:29 GMT
Kerouac - pertaining to your observation above - you are right - no-one ever learns.
My father, half-sisters and half-brother are buried far to the north of were I live. Every couple of years I make the journey to stay with a cousin and clean up the family grave. Fifteen years ago I employed a specialist stonemason to repair the grave. Unfortunately a thief had stolen the marble angel - like the one portrayed in Imec's post. Occasionally I like to be with my dead relations. I quietly remove overgrown branches, unwanted seedlings and fallen debris. I do not expect anyone to do this for me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 19:33:16 GMT
I wonder how many of us maintain the family graves. There is a grave in the suburbs of Paris where my great aunt and uncle are buried. I visited it about 5 years ago, and it was not kept up at all. Since then, my second cousin, the only person who would normally have ever been interested in his parents' grave, has died. There are grandchildren, but they live far from Paris and probably didn't know their grandparents very well, since both of them died when they were quite young.
I have promised myself that I will go and clean the grave some day and plant a few flowers, since I saw that there were a couple of planting boxes full of weeds. It is highly likely that it will be the very last time that anybody visits that grave.
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Post by spindrift on Nov 5, 2009 21:35:51 GMT
When you do go there (and I hope you will) take a pair of secateurs with you along with a trowel and fork. I invariably forget the secateurs and have a dreadful time trying to break off branches of holly trees. A pair of gardening gloves would be useful too.
If the stonework needs scrubbing (and it will) you should also take a bucket, brush and detergent with you as well. Don't forget the shears.
My mother is buried in Ireland. I had the family grave, over there, refurbished. Although she didn't want it I put a gravestone with loving words on it. I'm sure she wouldn't really mind that I did that. I needed to do it for myself. I go there when I can.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 22:27:19 GMT
The cemetery in reply #21 is in a neighborhood that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. As you can see in the photo,the grass is not overgrown. The families of the people in this neighborhood,many never returned after the storm and many died to be buried goodness knows where. So,it is not a case of neglect. More an indication of the devastation that was rampant all over the city.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 5, 2009 23:32:13 GMT
Great picture, Casimira. Is the grass dead because of the time of year, or because of the Katrina flooding?
There have always been some abandoned tombs in the N.O. cemeteries. I don't know if that's because of families who died or moved off, or because of non-payment of some kind of maintenance. You may remember that drunks routinely slept in some of the tombs in the Carrollton/St. Mary cemetery.
Re: the room for more tenants remark -- those "ovens", as they're called locally, are meant to hold multiple tenants. There is (or was) a law that stipulated that the coffin had to be made of something that would deteriorate in "a year & a day". (Casimira may want to verify that statement, which smacks of tour guide hyperbole.) There is a space in the back wall of the tombs. When it's time to insert someone else, the remains of the previous person are pushed to the back, where they fall down inside the wall.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2009 1:06:32 GMT
Actually, the grass had just been cut..the cemeteries don't have a lot of green space,the little grass there is ,the maintenance crews in these small cemeteries only cut a few times a year. The pictures were taken the day Friday before All Saints Day,the crew had just been in there and judging by the overflowing dumpster,there was quite a bit of stuff. They always bag up the pine needles separately,and I take them and use for mulch. The year and a day law regarding the vaults I believe is still in effect. Someone I know is the sexton at Greenwood and Cyprus Grove Cemeteries. I will check out with her. The pictures so far, are from cemetery at Valence and Dryades Streets.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2009 1:37:20 GMT
I know this is the cemetery thread, but look at the clouds in the 2nd picture!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2010 2:56:35 GMT
Can be a place to reflect and look back on our own lives and to know what is truly important to us in the here and now. I took these recently. You can tell that this first cemetery belongs to the Catholic Church and people:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2010 2:58:18 GMT
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