Cemetaries

[Soul Queen]

I read a the history of German Settlements in Missouri recently.

It was interesting to read the different towns that were settled by Germans. I was familiar with a good deal of them.

German culture was widespread in Missouri until WWI and II in which German societies were forced to give up things such as language, traditions, etc. in order to fit better with American society and not be seen as "the enemy".

Its interesting to speculate if WWI or II did not happen that a majority of Missourians would speak German today. Maybe I would I have grown up learning it? Who knows.

When I was growing up (I lived in the country), there was a nearby empty house. It was really old and upstairs there were letters and cards written in German. I thought it was cool.

I liked to explore around empty old houses when I was a kid.

[Lori Burger]

I read a the history of German Settlements in Missouri recently.

It was interesting to read the different towns that were settled by Germans. I was familiar with a good deal of them.

German culture was widespread in Missouri until WWI and II in which German societies were forced to give up things such as language, traditions, etc. in order to fit better with American society and not be seen as "the enemy".

Its interesting to speculate if WWI or II did not happen that a majority of Missourians would speak German today. Maybe I would I have grown up learning it? Who knows.

When I was growing up (I lived in the country), there was a nearby empty house. It was really old and upstairs there were letters and cards written in German. I thought it was cool.

I liked to explore around empty old houses when I was a kid.

Don't you think the country's reaction to the German settlers in WWII is similar to how Muslims in the US might be treated today? I mean, no one advertently asks them to 'blend' better, but this is subtly suggested all the time.

Old houses scare me. As a kid I had an active imagination, and it seems I still do :)

[Soul Queen]

Old houses are cool. I feel the same way about cemetaries. They are usually the most peaceful places to be around because people are so superstitious about them.

I like to think about where people come from, where they went....its a pretty short, a lifetime.

You can tell alot about the history of a place by the cemetaries. I'm not for sure how true that is today. But it is interesting to see what type of Epidemics went through an area. You can speculate at what an individual died from by looking at how old an individual was when they passed away, the timeframe of the death, and the town history. You can also see the casualities of war by walking through a cemetary.

guess that may seem weird but it tells alot about a history of a place.

[Lori Burger]

Old houses are cool. I feel the same way about cemetaries. They are usually the most peaceful places to be around because people are so superstitious about them.

I like to think about where people come from, where they went....its a pretty short, a lifetime.

You can tell alot about the history of a place by the cemetaries. I'm not for sure how true that is today. But it is interesting to see what type of Epidemics went through an area. You can speculate at what an individual died from by looking at how old an individual was when they passed away, the timeframe of the death, and the town history. You can also see the casualities of war by walking through a cemetary.

guess that may seem weird but it tells alot about a history of a place.


Not weird at all; as you said, cemeteries,etc., can be quite interesting and also telling of an area. They're still a little too creepy for me, though.

I once told Poof that my ideal job would be along the lines of working with those dudes TAPS (on the Sci Fi Channel) who go around trying to find ghosts, but he told me I'd be horrible at it because I'd always believe. Maybe, but it'd still be fun!

[Ag Au]

i like cemetaries too SQ. one great thing about living in the northeast is seeing the really old ones, at least a lot older than in missouri. the ones i have seen in central mass. are really great with super creepy imagery and sayings. the puritans (i think) didn't try and upstage god by creating perfect things, so their markers all have little scratched out spelling errors and inserted letters to make sure they wouldn't get into trouble. cool, huh? but i feel really weird about posting this in the beer thread so:

BEER ROCKS!!
GULP! GULP!

recently i have been on a circus boy kick. magic hat's answer to a super unfiltered hefeweizen. yum!

[JVO]

My step Dad had some sort of crazy obsession with cemetaries. He used to drag us all over the state of Virginia looking at different family plots and city cemetaries. Don't even get me started about the trips to Arlington National Cemetary. I spent so much time there, I have the place memorized. My Grandfathers, Grandfather, along with some other of my kinfolk, are buried in a cemetary near gettysburgs, PA. Some of the VO gravestones were of babies who lived less than a year. Pretty sad, but interesting. There are some graves in there from the 1600's.

Like Ag Au said, out east they have all sorts of little old crazy cemetaries. I bet Florida has a bunch dating back from the Spanish era. You would probably enjoy that.

Herman is one of my favorite places in MO. I been there three or four times and always had a good time. I really like German food too. I could eat sausages every day. YUMMY!!!

[007]

Damn its fun being a mod. Whee!
Just playing around with new-found powers.

Carry on.
Nothing to see here.

[JVO]

Damn you are on the mother!!!

[slam]

laina (who, by the way, is simply too busy with school to pay us little visits these days) spent a whole summer studying cemetaries. her aunt used to make props for the largest haunted house here in chicago, and laina got to work there one summer. she spent the whole time doing rubbings of tombstones and creating an entire prop graveyard.

fun fun.

[matty]

The coolest cemetaries I ever saw were in Savannah, GA. Lots of swampy, creepy cemetaries, most of them above-ground, lots of obelisks. Unlike puritans, Georgians seem to think their graves should be as dramatic and extravagant as they can get them. (The ones who don't get buried in an old refrigerator in the backyard, anyway.) The coolest thing about those cemetaries was that there's that weird hanging moss over all the trees there, and it makes the cemetaries extra creepy.

[Lori Burger]

My step Dad had some sort of crazy obsession with cemetaries. He used to drag us all over the state of Virginia looking at different family plots and city cemetaries. Don't even get me started about the trips to Arlington National Cemetary. I spent so much time there, I have the place memorized. My Grandfathers, Grandfather, along with some other of my kinfolk, are buried in a cemetary near gettysburgs, PA. Some of the VO gravestones were of babies who lived less than a year. Pretty sad, but interesting. There are some graves in there from the 1600's.

Like Ag Au said, out east they have all sorts of little old crazy cemetaries. I bet Florida has a bunch dating back from the Spanish era. You would probably enjoy that.

Herman is one of my favorite places in MO. I been there three or four times and always had a good time. I really like German food too. I could eat sausages every day. YUMMY!!!

Gettysburg is creepy alone, and even moreso if you check out the cemeteries there. I had to go there for a seminar once, and... well, I was freaked out.

[hotfoot]

There's a theory that cemeteries were the inspiration for our earliest suburbs/garden cities. Not sure if I'm sold on it, but Easterners definitely picnicked in them back in the day before parks were widespread.

[andikay]

Old houses are cool. I feel the same way about cemetaries. They are usually the most peaceful places to be around because people are so superstitious about them.

I like to think about where people come from, where they went....its a pretty short, a lifetime.

You can tell alot about the history of a place by the cemetaries. I'm not for sure how true that is today. But it is interesting to see what type of Epidemics went through an area. You can speculate at what an individual died from by looking at how old an individual was when they passed away, the timeframe of the death, and the town history. You can also see the casualities of war by walking through a cemetary.

guess that may seem weird but it tells alot about a history of a place.

That's funny...I spent a lot of time in cemetaries with my mom as a kid, because she was really into genealogy and would make gravestone rubbings to put in her File Cabinet of Ancestors. She visited cemetaries in order to deduce the exact same information you were just talking about. I have lots of pleasant memories of cemetaries.:rip:

[poofdogg]

did you all know that cemetaries is the incorrect spelling??? it's really cemeteries.

[hotfoot]

did you all know that cemetaries is the incorrect spelling??? it's really cemeteries.

noticed that on my post but after the edit option lapsed. it kinda killed me.

[007]

did you all know that cemetaries is the incorrect spelling??? it's really cemeteries.
Wow, I blew that one.
I'm usually very diligent about my spelling.
I'm like hotfoot, it kills me when my shit is spelled wrong.
BTW - hotfoot - you're welcome.

[hotfoot]

Wow, I blew that one.
I'm usually very diligent about my spelling.
I'm like hotfoot, it kills me when my shit is spelled wrong.
BTW - hotfoot - you're welcome.

Nice!

[andikay]

Wow, I blew that one.
I'm usually very diligent about my spelling.
I'm like hotfoot, it kills me when my shit is spelled wrong.
BTW - hotfoot - you're welcome.

Ditto. I don't know how I could have missed that.:o

Now I'm gonna be all OCD for a while...

[007]

Ditto. I don't know how I could have missed that.:o
Its just such an odd spelling.
The way I spelled it looks perfectly correct.
Just one of those weird English language things.

[poofdogg]

booyah...

[Padrote]

i wouldn't be caught dead in a cemetery!!

[andikay]

i wouldn't be caught dead in a cemetery!!

Okay, then we'll just throw your body in the woods and let the bears eat it.:p

[007]

Damn you are on the mother!!!
Good thing too, this thread has developed & of course the Beer thread is still going.

That worked out perfectly.
:cool::cool: