This showed up on the OHIO-ROOTS list today; too good not to share. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Quite logical, Spock! >An item from The New York Times, Sunday, November 2, 1997, page 33, >"Metropolitan Diary" By Ron Alexander: > >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." Robert W. Strong "WHERE DO WE GO WHEN WE DIE? Graduate School of Library he said. & Information Science I DON'T KNOW, the man said. University of Texas at Austin WHERE ARE WE NOW?" strong@gslis.utexas.edu