A wonderful friend ofmine just sent this to me since he knows how much into genealogy and cemetery readings -- I just LOVED IT!!! > >Subject: Headstones > > >:Thought you just might get a kick out of this.... >: >: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." >: