[Leica] Achilles, Virginia

[aalmansi at yahoo.com (Aquiles Almansi)]

I didn't know there is a town with my name in
Virginia! :-)

I guess I'll have to visit it one of these days.

--- Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> The part of Gloucester County that I live in is
> locally known as Guinea,
> for complicated reasons.  It's very flat and
> coastal: tidal marshes,
> swamps and pine barrens abound, all of which make it
> difficult to set a
> coffin in the ground and to keep it there.
> 
> This is the cemetery adjacent the Baptist Church in
> Achilles, Virginia,
> a little less than a half mile from my house.  All
> of the graves are
> capped in concrete, some more decoratively than
> others, following the
> theory that the added weight will prevent coffins
> from pushing to the
> surface when the shallow water table rises.
> 
> I was blessed (?) with a wonderfully garish winter
> light in the clear
> space between two advancing fronts this afternoon,
> so I splashed among
> the headstones.
> 
> I don't know how common is this practice, but I find
> it interesting.
> 
> 
>
http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins01.htm
> 
>
http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins02.htm
> 
>
http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins03.htm
> 
>
http://cmbrow.people.wm.edu/photography/New/coffins04.htm
> 
> 
> 
> Comments, etc.
> 
> Chandos
> 
> 
> 
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