-----Original Message----- From: Patricia Bennett <patdaley@ttlc.net> To: GENIRE-L@rootsweb.com <GENIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 11 September 1998 8:59am Subject: Re: [Fwd: Neatness is not on the top of my list.......] >A friend sent me this and I thought you'd all appreciate the humor. > >Pat > >> 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." > > >