This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zQB.2ACE/1803.1.1.1.4.1 Message Board Post: Oh yes, there is indeed snow. And along with it low temperatures to freeze solid anything on the ground. Definately not whistling through the graveyard weather... Does anyone remember those contraptions made to heat up a gravesite enough to dig? I believe they were propane powered(?) with a metal cover aproximately 7' x 3 1/2 ' that rolled over the lot and S-L-O-W-L-Y unfroze the ground to permit a backhoe, or gee wiz, a shovel, to get through the earth. I recall Mr. Gibbons, the gravedigger of St. James Cemetery in Jamesburg who had been at the shovel for 50 years. He took great pride in the fact that he dug each grave BY HAND, and looked at the cemetery as his own responsibility, both for interments and maintainance. We all owe him thanks for his care. "If you would look for his monument, look around you." Regards, Christopher