Cemetery removes Iraq War vet's headstone (must see to believe)

[Steely Dan]

In Rochester we have Mt. Hope Cemetery; http://nyfalls.com/articles/locations/mount-hope-cemetery/

Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglas are the most famous people buried there.

A little known fact about the cemetery is that the soldier who served as the inspiration for Billy Pilgrim (The protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5) is also buried there.

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/IN/RBSCP/Epitaph/ATTACHMENTS/24_4.pdf


...Edward R. Crone, an American soldier, died in a prison camp in Germany during the second World War. Author Kurt Vonnegut-in writing his novel, Slaughterhouse Five-based the character, Billy Pilgrim, on Crone's tragic life.

Kurt Vonnegut personally visited Crone's gravesite recently and visibly wept. Vonnegut also serves on the honorary board of the Rochester Cemeteries Heritage Foundation, which is working to preserve this incredible local cultural resource that we call Mount
Hope Cemetery. Crone is buried in Range 4...

Obviously that's an old article because Vonnegut passed away in 2007. One of my favorite writers.

 

[oh_gal]

I like the spongebob headstone too.



BBM

I agree that some are very beautiful art works, but some are just very, very tacky and almost unsightly. However, it's what the family wanted and so let it stay. I feel the same way about Spongebob. It's what the family wanted and just because it brings levity to a place that is only solemn because living people make it solemn doesn't make it wrong. JMO







BBM

I'm sorry, but the picnic lunch just seems a tad creepy. JMO :ghost:



I agree.

Picnic lunches at cemeteries are not for everyone, I know. I kind of see it as a way to make it a family affair (cleaning up) and still include your loved one in your day.

 

[davehead21]

I'm sorry, but the picnic lunch just seems a tad creepy. JMO :ghost:

Your obsession with emus is creepy.

 

[Sonya610]

I'm sorry, but the picnic lunch just seems a tad creepy. JMO :ghost:

The Victorian area produced the most beautiful cemeteries and that was in large part because they too believed in visiting frequently, eating a picnic lunch there, taking the whole family for the afternoon, etc....

That is why their cemeteries are to this day so lovely, works of art, shade trees, benches, walkways, they are meant to encourage folks to hang out as taking care of the graves and admiring the monuments was a part of life and not something to be shunned.

 

[SwampMama]

Picnic lunches at cemeteries are not for everyone, I know. I kind of see it as a way to make it a family affair (cleaning up) and still include your loved one in your day.

Our cemetery has a pretty gazebo where you can sit and eat. We bring snacks and drinks because we are there a long time, since all of my deceased family members on my mother and my father's side of the family are there, All of my grandparents, great grandparents, uncles, my daddy, cousins, etc. It is very pretty there, more like a park than a somber cemetery. Other relatives meet up with us there and we have an enjoyable day together, cleaning up the graves and sharing stories.


It is a small town cemetery with graves that date back to the early 1800s. One of my favorite graves there has this poem on it:

Remember sir, as you pass by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, you will soon be,
remember death and pray for me.

Kinda creepy but definitely interesting,