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Disturbing The Peace: About My Class Visit To A Cemetery Years Ago

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3452) • United States 8 Sep 19

Many years ago, I took a class trip to a grave yard, it was at the foot of a hill with a giant cross on the top of it, as I recall. We went there for a couple reasons, one was to do pencil rubbings of the headstones. Looking...

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Which way should graves face? Or doesn't it matter?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382542) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Aug 17

We left our campsite a bit later than usual this morning and only made a couple of short stops. One of these was at a small cemetery with a little chapel in the centre. It seemed that maybe the local authorities had made an effort...

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Playful Squirrels

5th House @5thHouse (1678) • Sheffield, England 8 Oct 16

I took this photograph on a weekend break in Norfolk. We had just been to a tea shop and were passing a rather picturesque churchyard when we noticed several squirrels running up and down the gravestones. They seemed to be...

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Do you visit graveyards when not attending funerals?

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 6 Sep 15

I am fascinated by old graveyards, cemeteries and church yards. They are very relaxing, often very well kept, and the tombstones can be interesting. It saddens me to see some vandalized or daubed in graffiti by idiots with zero...

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Vacationing and visiting churches and graveyards... Have you ever done this?

whiteheron @whiteheron (4222) • United States 26 Apr 08

When you are vacationing or visiting a place, do you go look at the churches and graveyards? I will be going to see Mission San Juan Capistrano with my sisters this Saturday. It is a church that has been turned into a magnet for...

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do you ever visit graveyards

bramley13 @bramley13 (291) 6 Jan 07

on a visit to my mums grave,i decided to look around the graveyard, it might seem morid, but it was very intresting.the really old graves victoian times tell what people have done in the past,with headstones erected when money...

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graveyards

Lorilamil @Lorilamil (2) 29 Sep 06

we have 1 of the haunted cementeries in Indiana,even the ghosthunting crews pop in with gear on full moons!I live far from any city life but city life finds this haunted site every Hallows Eve and alot of Full Moons , when I...

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