I am forwarding the following message because those of you concerned with the cemetery problems should appreciate it. Arnold on Fidalgo Island near La Conner aks@fidalgo.net >X-Sender: armbrust@fidalgo.net >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 >Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:08:31 -0700 >To: "Arnold K. Stewart" <aks@fidalgo.net> >From: "Al Folkers" <folkersa@cadvision.com> (by way of Earl Armbrust <armbrust@fidalgo.net>) >Subject: [OSTFRIESEN-L] They've spruced up the churchyard cemetery ! > >Moin Alles, > >A friend sent me this from GENIRE-L and I thought you'd all appreciate the >humor. > >Al >An item from The New York Times, Sunday, November 2, 1997, page 33, >Metropolitan Diary By Ron Alexander: > >Dear Diary: >An older friend, recently returned from her home town in North >Carolina, says they've spruced up the churchyard cemetery since her last >visit several years back. Lots of new greenery, she said. And >families are together now. > >Together?, I asked, puzzled. > >Well, years ago they never much worried where they buried >someone because everyone was a neighbor anyhow. They'd just dig a grave >wherever it seemed to balance things. But they've redone it so people >are with their children and grandchildren, instead of scattered. > >You mean they exhumed all those people and buried them? > >Oh no, she said. They just shifted the headstones. Everyone >agrees it looks ever so much nicer. > >==== OSTFRIESEN Mailing List ==== >Check out our companion web pages, browse to: > >http://www.summitsoftware.com/pwa/ostfriesen.htm >