Hi Listers, I don't know if anyone else saw the PBS show on cemeteries but I would be interested in your views. Since I was old enough to remember, every year when we went to the family reunion we would always go afterwards to visit my grandmother's grave (daddy's mom). My dad dearly loved his mom and this was his way of remaining close to her. Our visit was always ones of quiet reverence. As a result I've always been mindful of stepping on what I knew to be a gravesites. I was respectful and always a little in awe. On the PBS show they showed many different traditions and uses for cemeteries. People were giving tours and holding social events (music in the park or art in the park type events and even reinactments). I'd never really thought of cemeteries as a place for a social gathering except for funerals. And a couple of weeks ago I came back from London where we saw children running a playing among the gravestones. I missed the first part of the show but found it facinating. I'm sure they will run it again and I will try to catch it. Whether you saw it or not, what do you think? Kati Smith GAWARE List Admin [email protected] Elver's Peak (my personal home page with genealogies) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~elverspeak/ Beulah Church Cemetery http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~elverspeak/beulah.htm Ware County Georgia, GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaware/ Wiregrass Resources http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~elverspeak/wiregrass.html Cherokee (Tsalagi) Circle of Learning Page http://www.geocities.com/kimis.geo/tsalagi.htm