One of our favourite Samhain sports here in Maine is cemetery-hopping. It's a sort of above-ground spelunking for not-so-buried treasures: the wonderfully ornate, occasionally bizarre, and often humourous carvings that grace 17th-19th-century gravestones. (20th-century gravestones tend to be terribly dull.)
On one of our jaunts, I discovered my all-time favourite headstone: a woman with the splendid name of "Temperance Faucette."
MaineCelt, thanks for popping by. from our part of the world is the wonderful inscription on church wall - "he lies dust down there..."; and the landowner who was killed by his sacked gamekeeper, whose headstone contains the line "Waiting until all shall be revealed..." The full story can be found here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2009/05/21/hanslope_park_three_feature.shtml. Temperance Faucette is a wonderful name, and may well be employed in a Beaker naming ceremony at some later point.
Irony? From Michigan? What do you mean?
ReplyDeleteAhh, glorious stereotypes.
That is brilliant. Thanks for putting it online.
ReplyDeleteOne of our favourite Samhain sports here in Maine is cemetery-hopping. It's a sort of above-ground spelunking for not-so-buried treasures: the wonderfully ornate, occasionally bizarre, and often humourous carvings that grace 17th-19th-century gravestones. (20th-century gravestones tend to be terribly dull.)
ReplyDeleteOn one of our jaunts, I discovered my all-time favourite headstone: a woman with the splendid name of "Temperance Faucette."
MaineCelt, thanks for popping by. from our part of the world is the wonderful inscription on church wall - "he lies dust down there..."; and the landowner who was killed by his sacked gamekeeper, whose headstone contains the line "Waiting until all shall be revealed..." The full story can be found here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2009/05/21/hanslope_park_three_feature.shtml.
ReplyDeleteTemperance Faucette is a wonderful name, and may well be employed in a Beaker naming ceremony at some later point.