Cemeteries are on my mind a lot lately, due to the time of the year I suppose, although I tend to think about them often. I sometimes watch videos on how to clean headstones and about people who repair headstones that have fallen over, I research people and photograph headstones for others. You can go out to most cemeteries on any given day and see someone walking the paths and of course, people placing flowers on graves and spending time in reflection. When people think about visitors coming to our towns, they don’t often think about the number of out-of-town visitors to our cemeteries. Not only do people travel to towns to visit family gravesites, genealogists roam cemeteries to research family histories all the time. In essence, our cemeteries represent our communities to those who visit. I’ve often said, “Show me a well-cared-for cemetery and I’ll show you a community that takes pride in its history and town.”
Source: Dodge City Daily Globe
