Trick or treat! Here's a pre Halloween post of a Weekend Cemetery tour we did recently. Have you ever heard the old saying "Loud enough to wake the dead"? This idiom has been around since the mid 1800's, but no one seems to know the exact origin. We experienced that this weekend during a small cemetery tour where they fired a civil war canon at the end of the tour.
There's a few old fables and similar beliefs around canons and dead people. In the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", one chapter describes how they were using a canon on a ferry boat attempting to raise Huck's "dead" body out of the river.
While it is theoretically possible for the concussion of a canon to perhaps loosen a body lightly stuck in the weeds and have it float out, it would not have the effect that some used to believe of bursting the persons gall bladder and causing them to float from the bottom of the lake or pond. It is true that some dead bodies emit gases during the putrification process that could cause a previously sunken body to float. That may be part of the reason that caused propagation of the myth.
**No bodies were raised during the firing of this canon. Although maybe later.... check your doors.
This is the signage to the cemetery entrance. The cemetery was built near a small church sometime in the 1800's. The church was later moved to a different location to preserve the original building.
There are at multiple confederate (southern) soldiers buried on the site. These brick tombs have a different story. Apparently the family, especially the mother had a phobia of her face being covered by dirt, so the family was entombed above ground inside these small brick and mortar enclosures.
The old hickory trees with the spanish moss hanging down provide an even spookier feel at night.
And then of course there was the canon. Who doesn't love a canon? As the second picture shows, they fired the canon. And Yes, it was loud enough to wake the dead! I just hope none of them followed us home.
We went to town to Discount Tire this morning to have new sneakers put on the hotrod.
I looked over at the IHOP parking lot and it was full of spooky displays around the open trunk lids and tailgates and kids were in costumes. My @pooky-jax told me that was...
TRUNK N' TREAT
New to this old trucker. But I guess anything beats going door to door in this sick society. I have heard of the graveyard tours. Let me know if you are now haunted and voodoo cursed. Gives a whole new meaning to the comment...
This is how I feel now about Daytona Biketoberfest...
Hah, yes the Biketoberfest was quite disruptive to the traffic here for sure. I didn't really attend any of the festivities, but did have to detour a few times and it kept me from my favorite wings spot when I was really craving some.
I never really think of the civil war having impacted Florida, but I guess it makes as much sense as any other southern state. It's always fun to watch the cannons get fired off. I was at a civil war reenactment many years ago and I got some great photos of the cannon line firing.
I have to admit my first thought was "no way the Yankees made it down this far". I'm not sure they did, it may have been soldiers killed further north then brought home. The little bit of research I did stated the Florida was limited to mostly small skirmishes and only a couple major battles, so I guess there was more fighting here than I thought. Sounds like a metal detector adventure, while everyone else on the coast looking for pirate treasure. :)
Haha, yeah, that might be a good idea. I would share the same thinking as you. I would have expected there to be more battles further north and pretty much nothing down that far. I would guess some folks might have traveled north to fight maybe.
Those trees are really spooky 👻
There are so many down here! It's awesome to see them at night even driving with the headlights reflecting from them.
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That cannon looked good decorating my living room😏
For sure! Or a great welcome mat for the front porch!
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