Woody Allen
These hands caught my fancy recently on a ride through Evergreen Cemetery. When I worked there for 9 summers, I spent a lot of my free time investigating the stones, carvings, names and dates of the deceased, and in some cases how they met their demise. I love how you can find a baby's small, seemingly insignificant stone alongside a huge family mausoleum. Here are a couple of headstones from Disney's World's Haunted Mansion:
Fred Joerger- Here Lies Good Old Fred. A Great Big Rock Fell On His Head. RIP
(set designer and model builder for Disney)
Cliff Huet- REST IN PEACE COUSIN HUET, WE ALL KNOW YOU DIDN'T DO IT.
(interior designer)
By the way, both real people who worked and knew Walt Disney personally.
Humor and death: they seem an odd combination.
*These days when I'm in Evergreen, I'm on a bit of a quest. There is a stone, among the 65,000 buried here. I found it once and have been going back and searching for it to no avail. It has a small tin type photograph attached to the front. I know it's in there. Wish me luck!
Here's wishing you luck in your quest.
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ReplyDeleteThat's interesting Birdman..sometimes I walk around the headstones and markers at the Monterey Cemetery and wonder about all the silent stories of dead war heros and babies.
ReplyDeleteThere is always some history carved on the tombstones.
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I'd like to have time enough to explore cemeteries, and to try to find and understand those mysterious things carved in stones.
ReplyDeleteAnd what treasures you are finding along the way as you search! Humor & death, it is a great combination, I think...
ReplyDeleteoh, good luck with the treasure hunt! :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have given yourself a challenge, which I'm sure you'll meet. :)
ReplyDeleteit's always fun to poke around a cemetery especially if you have ancestors there!
ReplyDeleteNice headstone. I agree with RedPat, it can be interesting to poke around.
ReplyDeleteI've seen those headstones with a tintype before. Good luck in your search.
ReplyDeleteInteresting and strange tomb decoration. We greet one another and shake hands while we're alive. I wonder it it is a symbol we don't understand.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your search Birdman, how many thousands left to go!
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I were planting flowers at a small unmarked child's headstone one day and she dug up an old skate key. It instantly brought the reality of the past to the present. You will find that stone. I know that feeling.
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