Read about the Quaker cemetery in Queens, New York http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/nyregion/quakers-say-contractors-desecrated-queens-cemetery.html?scp=1&sq=quaker%20cemetery&st=cse

I won't defend workers' tearing up any neighbors' property, but what mainly strikes me is that early Friends were so determined not to heap posthumous honors on the dead, while contemporary Friends toss around words like "sacred" and "desecrate" like everyone else. I was in London a few years ago and sought out the grave of George Fox, who was buried at Bunhill Fields in 1691. In the centuries since, a nearby road was widened, so the bones of Fox and his contemporaries were dug up and tossed in a nearby common pit -- and the work was done by the Friends themselves. As I understand it, the traditional Quaker position is that people live on their their works (whatever they were), not by worshipping the spot where they were buried. Mark -------------------------------------------------- From: "Gwen Boyer Bjorkman" <gwenbj@seanet.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 3:34 PM To: <quaker-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: [Q-R] Fw: Quakers Say Contractors Desecrated Queens Cemetery -NYTimes.com > Read about the Quaker cemetery in Queens, New York > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/nyregion/quakers-say-contractors-desecrated-queens-cemetery.html?scp=1&sq=quaker%20cemetery&st=cse > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > QUAKER-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message