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Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece – Revolutionary Tombstones

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Tombstones

I have always loved this picture though not everyone shares my enthusiasm for photographs of tombstones. This is Uxbridge’s Revolutionary War cemetery. There are newer residents too, but more than half of those interred died in one of our early wars, the Revolution or the Civil War. It’s right in the middle of town, across from the dam on the Mumford River and across the street from where Bernat Mills was before the fire.

The peculiar lay of the land let me take a series of shots from below ground level, giving me a unique perspective as the stones loom above you. And it’s mid-October, the peak of a golden autumn afternoon in New England.

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22 replies

  1. JustDeb
    07/27/2013 • 14:14

    I love a good cemetary! Stopped my car yesterday to take a picture of one yesterday. I love to go to the one in which my Moms family is buried. My Great Grandfather buried his first and second wife in same plot and used same headstone for them. He is buried alone behind them.

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    • Teepee12
      07/27/2013 • 14:19

      I guess I’m not the only crazy person 🙂

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      • JustDeb
        07/27/2013 • 14:21

        I’m betting there are quite a few of us out there. It’s one of the first place I go when visiting my Dad. I sit with/on my Grandparents and enjoy the quiet.

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        • Teepee12
          07/27/2013 • 14:41

          I have a story. The year I was fifteen, I was starting my senior year of high school (yes, I was a bit young). Early in the year, I found a non-malignant, but very large tumor at the base of my right leg. It had to be removed and a pin was put in to replace apiece of my fibula. I was on crutches for 7 months and could not go to school because there was no handicapped access. No elevators. I was assigned a home tudor and she hooked me up with another of her clients. She was schizophrenic, also an artist. She loved cemeteries. Preferably at night. One night, we went to see “Who’s afraid of Baby Jane?” and afterwards, she took me to the local cemetery and danced through it kissing the stones. It was … uh … a bit strange. But I developed a fascination with tombstones that has never left me. Especially up here in New England were we have so many very old ones.

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  2. garryarmstrong
    07/27/2013 • 13:10

    As a little girl once observed, “Dead people under rocks..”.

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  3. melissa nacinovich
    07/27/2013 • 11:32

    lol I thought I was the only one who loved to take photos of old tombstones. My husband thinks I’m nuts so I don’t usually share them.

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    • Teepee12
      07/27/2013 • 11:34

      Mine are usually greeted by my husband with a marked lack of enthusiasm. But we are not alone. There are other crazy photographers too. I even know a couple 🙂

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      • melissa nacinovich
        07/27/2013 • 11:36

        I will have to dig through my archive and maybe add a few to my photography page. I think they’re amazing little glimpses into history…more real than a genealogy page anyway.

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  4. dimlamp
    07/27/2013 • 11:01

    Thanks for visiting my blog and commenting. Yes, the Hebrew title of my blog is based on the Isaiah text. What about your blog’s address “Teepee12?”

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    • Teepee12
      07/27/2013 • 11:27

      I wrote a book (not exactly a best-seller) titled “The 12-foot Teepee.” I also built the aforementioned teepee myself. It finally got old and had to come down, but it was up and in use for 5 years. I miss it. So I memorialized it as my identity. I also lived in Israel for almost a decade, so I notice Hebrew. I don’t read it well … never did … but it reminds me of my years in Jerusalem.

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  5. Dorothy Durkee
    07/27/2013 • 00:19

    If I recall correctly, I once visited a small cemetery in Princeton, MA, where right next to each other I saw a headstones that said:
    Here lies
    HEMAN
    and his wife
    SUBMIT

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