CemetaryScape: The Dead Watch Over Us
Click to enlarge. Photo for thegazz.com by Walker DeVille
There is a revolution afoot -- a terrible one -- in the cemetary world in which upright tombstones are banned in cemetaries of recent vintage. I've heard this is the triumph of the groundskeepers, since it is so much easier to mow around gravestones set flush in the ground. C'est mauvais! These new cemetaries are (so to speak) soulless places, full of disorienting, endless fields of stone rectangles in the grass. Spring Hill Cemetary, high in the hills above downtown, is everything a cemetary should be. These bland tombstones seen above do not reflect the eye-popping creativity and pathos of the multifarious tombs one finds there. (I shot this to illustrate the title above.) Spring Hill is, oddly, one of the most peaceful places in Charleston.
2 Comments:
One of the things I miss about charleston is the view from the surrounding hills.Indeed, the cemetary has some of the best.Thanks for sharing.By the way,no flat headstone for me.Maybe a parkbench style marker (with a view)so people might sit a while.
True enough, festuswv, perhaps with a message like: 'Take a Load Off!' It is quite remarkable, BTW, how very large Spring Hill is. It is like a small city of graves, with subdivisions, communities (the Jewish section, for example) and thoroughfares and out of the way corners. They really don't buled them like that anymore.
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