Before meeting Dan, Mark and Adam for breakfast this morning I looked at shirts at K-Mart and then drove around Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaneil Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau are buried there along with quite a few others. Like Mt Auburn Cemetery, with its host of famous people, Sleepy Hollow is an active cemetery.
Not a real flattering photo of Dan at La Provence, but a damn fine one taken by Adam with my cell phone.
An “active” cemetery with headless horsemen cantering through, I imagine.
Wait, what do you mean by an “active” cemetery?
There are often visitors in the author’s little area. I have visited there and what I remember is you aren’t allowed to put flowers on their graves, only rocks. But Rakkity your suggestion of headless horsemen cantering through made me chuckle.
Here’s a list of the “famous” at Sleepy Hollow:
http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=91709
I think “active” means regularly visited — as by Mikey. Besides famous names and notable headstones, what found you there, herr blogmeister? Bucolic peace? Mortal insights? Intimate conversations with previously-perfect-strangers? Live ones or dead ones?
I knew “active” was the wrong word and I thought I should elaborate. Like Mt Auburn Cemetery – old and full of famous people – you can still be buried in Sleepy Hollow. I went there because I’d always wanted to and because I know two people who are buried there. Linda’s father for instance.
I was thinking Mt Auburn while reading about your cemetarial activity. Many a time I went to M.A. just for a walk, looking at famous names on the stones, and enjoying the scenery.
Is it called “burial” when it’s in a compartment in a wall? I know that process is active at Mt. Auburn; but I’m not at all sure traditional plots are a possibility.
Our friends have traditional plots waiting for them. The cost of burial at Mt Auburn runs from about twelve grand to 5oo really large.