Cemeteries
by Petty theft and vandalism and what organizations that are established through out the country who care for cemeteries through preservation.
It’s night time the only light around is provided by the moon. The quickest way back home, to warmth, comfort and safety is through the old cemetery. Making tracks through the maze of old gravestones as a strange fog rolls in and fear shoots through out your body as every night creature makes itself known to you.
Cemeteries and old graveyards are the perfect settings for the best ghost stories. There is no better place to get your adrenaline flowing and have the hairs on the back of your neck and arms stand straight up because your imagination is working in over drive. But the final resting places for our loved ones have come a long way as in style and provide a park setting for those of us who are still living to go and sit comfortably and spend time with the ones who’ve gone on before us.
Although the majority of us respect our cemeteries, there is still a lot who have no respect at all. These are people who enter the cemetery at night and either vandalize the gravestones or steal the gifts that were left for our loved ones. Some believe that it is our youth who have nothing better to do but still to walk into a cemetery and take a statue or a simple set of five dollar lamps to sell at the local flea market or to give as a gift yourself is extremely disrespectful.
However there are organizations who have dedicated themselves to preserving our cemeteries. Organizations like Friends of Center Cemetery in Hartford Connecticut, and Saving Graves a national organization along with the Masonic lodges and groups of Concerned Citizens which work to increase public awareness of preserving, protecting and restoring cemeteries world wide. Most of these organizations hold activities within the local cemeteries other than the traditional burying and honoring the dead, some include social gatherings, jazz festivals, and bike tours. Trying to make the cemetery as a part of the fabric of the communities, also getting local schools and the boy and girl scout troops involved in cleaning, planting and learning of their towns history.
By getting involved in one of these organizations may help strengthen our knowledge of our past and in turn may continue to teach our youth to respect the local cemeteries.
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