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    1. Mount St. Mary's Cemetery - Memories of Memorial Day
    2. Janet S. Porter
    3. They are very helpful at St. Mary's Cemetery when we were there in 2001. My Grandmother went there EARLY every Memorial Day. She took my brother and I with her and our Great Grandmother went before she died. We brought a huge bucket of cut peonies, from her yard. All the month of May, she worried that the peonies would not be blooming! They wouldn't let you park or drive in on that day because of all the people. We would carry small buckets full of the peonies and pull a wagon with the excess flowers and things she needed to groom the graves. The whole family was buried there, as were friends and others from the neighborhood she grew up in that had no one to put flowers on their graves. It seemed like we walked a very long way to get to all the graves. It was also a meeting place for friends and relatives. It took us a very long time because of LONG conversations with these people. Afterwards she would take us home to clean up and then later the whole family went out for a chicken dinner! Her favorite thing to do! Janet

    08/05/2006 02:14:21