(Digital Image. Photograph Privately Held By Cynthia Shenette; Photograph and Text, Copyright (c) 2012 Cynthia Shenette) We drive by this little cemetery in Schuyler, New York whenever we visit relatives in the area. It intrigues me, because it looks like a place time forgot. The cemetery is in the middle of a corn field. My photo was taken last spring just after planting time. You can see the little corn seedlings if you look closely. By the end of summer tall corn stalks surround the cemetery, and in the winter the wind whips the barren, snowy field. A list of people buried in the cemetery can be found here. The list refers to an earlier list which mentions the cemetery may be in East Schuyler, but the cemetery in my photo is actually in West Schuyler.
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2 comments:
It looks like a nice, if neglected, place to be buried.
Kristin - I thought the same thing! It's nice and quiet and away from traffic. There are definitely worse places one could spend eternity. The area probably looks pretty much the same as it did when they were alive...
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