Wow @sagesigma these gravestones are so beautiful. I must admit that these old style gravestones always make me feel like there was so much care and respect that went into the burial of people back then. Nice that you were able to find some history on the area as well.
I visited a cemetery in England once that was quite old and the grave stones were beautifully hand carved with celtic knotwork patterns, they were stunning.
I would love to visit England in the future; I have a bit of Irish and English in me, and would love to see that type of art.
This area was highly concentrated with German, Norwegian, and Irish immigrants in the mid 1800's or so; like you said, the attention and respect in the old markers from that time period...it really is a beautiful thing.
I've seen old photos of that cemetery, and it was truly a beautiful place. Today it is still nice, but I imagine over time things like ponds, arches, and other niceties became too much overhead and were removed.
That's sad, but considering all that and it's still in that condition, I'm quite amazed. You would definitely enjoy seeing the sights around England, I'll see if I can actually find my old photos, so much history there and really interesting folklore around the ruins of old castles too.
yes please share! I'd love to see them! We have some interesting folklore in this area too, but most of it isn't known. No castles over here either :( But...there are some pyramids nearby that I need to get photos of soon.
Pyramids are rad, I'm keen to see read about them when you do go see them. I'll go have a look for my photos from when I visited Wales, that was a pretty epic outing. Lovely scenery and the people were quite friendly, but I had no idea what they were saying because they ALL seemed to speak Gaelic even when they were speaking English lol.
They are more earthwork pyramids around here...sadly, most of the Native American remnants and their meaning have been lost to time.
The area I live in alone was filled with effigies; all long gone now due to expansion.
I wouldn't even know where to start with Gaelic! I think there was a Super Furry Animals' album a while ago I remember getting from Napster (or something else like that) and it was in Gaelic. No idea, lol
Hi @sagesigma
It's very sad that so many of those artifacts have been lost, but many of these things tend to disappear if they aren't conserved.
Lol I am going to look up that album now and check it out. It's a very strange language that I would love to learn (and Latin).