Cemetery caches…and more ramblings…..

[Braid Beards Gang]

I like doing cemetery caches. They offer some great history lessons.

Although, I did feel uncomfortable one time. My daughters and I were in Calvary Cemetery in Milwaukee. We were taking a tour of historical Milwaukee figures Juneau, Miller, Cudahy, etc. for a puzzle cache. We came accross a woman with a picnic set up next to a gravestone. She was having a glass of champagne and there was another glass filled on top of the headstone that she was lying near. It seemed she was having a moment with her loved one. I was embarassed for interupting something that I thought probably should have been private for her. We just continued on quietly, but I still felt guilty.

I guess you should just be respectful as with any other cache.

[sandlanders]

Right now I just want to be outside and find caches and find places to put caches and not worry about snow and cold and wet feet. I want to see action and not spend so much time inside sitting on my duff at the keyboard. This starts tomorrow. 😀 😀 😀 Look out, woods and open spaces! Here we come!

[DGDK]

Personally, I LOVE cemetery caches. As an amateur genealogist and history buff, I started wandering around cemeteries long before I started caching. Through my travels I’ve visited Jim Morrison, Michelangelo, Ben Franklin, Custer, Lindbergh, Elvis (although he’s still alive), about 3/4ths of the US Presidents, and hundreds of other interesting people. When I’m at a gravesite it makes me stop and reflect about life and death and appreciate history and what people had to go through. I also consider many headstones to be works of art, as weird as that may sound, and it’s amazing how much work was put into some of the earlier stones that far surpass the laser-etched stones of today. If there were no caches in cemeteries, I would still continue to visit them. Check out findagrave.com to see who’s near you…

[zuma]

@DGDK wrote:

Personally, I LOVE cemetery caches. As an amateur genealogist and history buff, I started wandering around cemeteries long before I started caching. Through my travels I’ve visited Jim Morrison, Michelangelo, Ben Franklin, Custer, Lindbergh, Elvis (although he’s still alive), about 3/4ths of the US Presidents, and hundreds of other interesting people. When I’m at a gravesite it makes me stop and reflect about life and death and appreciate history and what people had to go through. I also consider many headstones to be works of art, as weird as that may sound, and it’s amazing how much work was put into some of the earlier stones that far surpass the laser-etched stones of today. If there were no caches in cemeteries, I would still continue to visit them. Check out findagrave.com to see who’s near you…

Wow. Jim Morrison. Cool.

(I went to Graceland and saw Elvis’s grave too. There is a cache on the wall within 300 feet.)

z

[marc_54140]

@zuma wrote:

@DGDK wrote:

Personally, I LOVE cemetery caches. As an amateur genealogist and history buff, I started wandering around cemeteries long before I started caching. Through my travels I’ve visited Jim Morrison, Michelangelo, Ben Franklin, Custer, Lindbergh, Elvis (although he’s still alive), about 3/4ths of the US Presidents, and hundreds of other interesting people. When I’m at a gravesite it makes me stop and reflect about life and death and appreciate history and what people had to go through. I also consider many headstones to be works of art, as weird as that may sound, and it’s amazing how much work was put into some of the earlier stones that far surpass the laser-etched stones of today. If there were no caches in cemeteries, I would still continue to visit them. Check out findagrave.com to see who’s near you…

Wow. Jim Morrison. Cool.

Pere Lachaise, in Paris, is probably the one cemetery the caretakers would prefer not to have …. fans visiting. Morrison’s grave is a hangout.

[DGDK]

Pere LaChaise remains my favorite cemetery that I have wandered around. Not only is it huge, but there are famous people at virtually every turn. When I was there, Morrison had security standing close by. Can you imagine having that job?

[HeliDood]

If you’d like to see a cool cemetery, and you can make it out to the east coast, be sure to visit the Granary burial ground in Boston, located next door to the Boston Common.

The cemetery is very small.
Buried there is Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock, the parents of Ben Franklin, Mother Goose, and the victims of the Boston Massacre, and a bunch of other people of historical significance.

http://www.celebrateboston.com/sites/granary-burying-ground.htm

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