----- ............Cemetery Walk: An afternoon of discovery! Every stone has a story. And they are waiting to be told........... -----

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Rewind

Fontaine Grave - Highland Park Cemetery

Last week, over on The Graveyard Rabbit Online Journal, Denise shared an article on managing our blog archives. I use labels [tags] for my posts and also have installed the widget "Link Within" which does a good job of highlighting older posts at the bottom of new posts. Other than that I don't know of much else I can do. I chose not to use a surname in my label directory so I wouldn't have label overload. If you notice, most of mine will fit into a location label. Since I photograph cemeteries all over I felt it best to group them in this manner and then include a few other categories [labels].

Thursday, June 10, 2010

GYR Carnival - Scavenger Hunt

Wow - can you tell I had a hard time picking one for each category? I think this has been my favorite carnival thus far. Let's do it again in the future [maybe a few less to find]. We could also pick one item and see how many variations are found for it.

Mausoleum
S. P. Dinsmore Mausoleum - Garden of Eden, Ellsworth Co., KS
Mt. Calvary Cemetery - Saline Co., KS
Lakin Cemetery - Kearny Co., KS

Cross
Wilson Cemetery - Ellsworth Co., KS
St. Fidelis Cemetery - Ellis Co., KS

Angel
Walnut Hill Cemetery - Kingman Co., KS
Attica Cemetery - Harper Co., KS
Linwood Cemetery - Muscogee Co., GA

Bird
Iola Cemetery - Allen Co., KS
Gypsum Cemetery - Saline Co., KS

Four Legged Animal
Wilson Cemetery - Ellsworth Co., KS
Abilene Cemetery - Dickinson Co., KS
Lyons Cemetery - Rice Co., KS

Military Gravestone
Valley View Cemetery - Finney Co., KS
McPherson Cemetery - McPherson Co., KS

Photo
Utica Cemetery - Ness Co., KS
St. Fidelis Cemetery - Ellis Co., KS

Star
Bean Cemetery - Rice Co., KS
Baxter Springs Cemetery - Cherokee Co., KS

Obelisk
Linwood Cemetery - Muscogee Co., GA

Heart
Russell City Cemetery - Russell Co., KS
Zion COG Cemetery - McPherson Co., KS
St. Patrick's Cemetery - Dickinson Co., KS

Tree
Lebanon Cemetery - Kingman Co., KS
Iola Cemetery - Allen Co., KS
Stafford Cemetery - Stafford Co., KS

Hand
Gypsum Cemetery - Saline Co., KS
Ellsworth Cemetery - Ellsworth Co., KS
Russell City Cemetery - Russell Co., KS

Fraternal Symbol
Walnut Hill Cemetery - Kingman Co., KS
Abilene Cemetery - Dickinson Co., KS
Ellsworth Cemetery - Ellsworth Co., KS

Flower
Larned Cemetery - Pawnee Co., KS
Linwood Cemetery - Muscogee Co., GA
Eastside Cemetery - Reno Co., KS

Monument
Mother Bickerdyke Cemetery - Ellis Co., KS
St. Aloysius Cemetery - Crawford Co., KS

Memorial to the Victims of Abortion

Hayes City Cemetery

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Moon Family

Cottonwood Cemetery
Charity 1854-1899
William 1850-1926
Edward 1888-1910
Pearl 1883-1901
Hayes 1876-191?
Leota 1895-1918

Monday, June 7, 2010

Would you buy this book?

Help! I need your opinion.

I'm considering pre-ordering this book. Would you buy it based on the description given?

Please share your comments!

And, does anyone own these books or have seen them?
  • Country Churchyards by Eudora Welty, 2000
  • American Military Cemeteries by Dean W. Holt, 2009

Thanks.

Bookshelf and Walk Update

I'm now at 190 cemeteries that I have taken photos in. I'm slowly getting the albums online. My goal is to have them all online by the end of the year. I'll soon be adding to this number. I'm going to New York in a few weeks and have been searching online for information on the cemeteries in the area of my visit. I have always wanted to visit east coast cemeteries and am so excited about this trip.


I've also moved a book from my wishlist to my cemetery bookshelf: Beautiful Death.

What books are on your cemetery bookshelf?

Wednesday, June 2, 2010