To whom it may concern (or care),

I feel like I have been disloyal to anyone who was expecting an exciting blog about cemetery information. The truth is at first I only wanted to write what was best and educated sounding; and that my friends, is not how to run a blog. So I will start by telling you the information I do find and the cemeteries I do visit.

So today's adventures had started when I had time to kill. As I was driving trying to think of a way to kill that time I had remembered seeing a cemetery tucked up in a hill in southern Manchester, conviently on my way toward my destnation. After much difficulty in finding the right road, tackling a monster frost heave, pulling into a somewhat small parkinglot, deciphering where the graveyard's location was, and finding the sign which read in big white leters "Moore Cemetery" I had finally arrived. As you probably already know that older cemeteries will have stones are broken in half and the tip lay next to the base, well this was what I saw but at every headstone. To make it worse most of the stones were unreadable! The writing I could understand very little since having the acid rain and the elements take its toll. The earliest stone I could indentify was from 1824. Not only were stones in half and unreadable but boughs of trees were scattered all over the patch, making it seem like the cemetery hadn't been taken care of in a long time.


Later on in the aftrnoon, I kept thinking of what I could do to help restore these coloniel burial grounds. I decided while hanging at my boyfriend's house to look up different organizations who help unkept graveyards. Sadly I could find non that were still opperating. One thing that I did find most interesting was a government position which one of the main duties is to arouse awareness and restore older cemeteries. The job is called a "Cemetery Trustee". After reading all the requirements for the job, I am considering running for Cemetery Trustee in my local town. I am way to pasionate to be letting these graveyard's and it's inhabitants' names go to ruin because nobody cares about graveyards.

Hopefully you do read this entry and support me in my efforts.....if you have any stories or findings on cemeteries in your area, comment; I would love to know I'm not the only one who is in the fight to save our hisory!