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 noogie
 
Location: Eau Claire
Gender: Male
happy happy joy joy
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< on 4/19/2009 2:24 PM >
|  | | | Do you like graveyards? I have always liked to run through them and admire some of the really interesting ones, sometimes find a famous person. I enjoy the strange statues, benches, and art deco stylings and find them to be serene and peaceful places. They make me think about who was and who they were. They remind me that the past does live on if we remember it. I had the opportunity to do family history research which took us to Kentucky, and we spent a considerable time in graveyards there. I was awestruck at the elaborate graveyards and the incredible tombs and graves that rivaled many of the monuments I had seen anywhere!
I have noticed many older graveyards in rural areas that I plan to shoot soon, and wonder if anyone else shares my fascination with stuff like this. Areas that once were pretty remote and rural are now more traveled and construction is swallowing up a lot, so you might see a small incorporated town with an old graveyard from 100 years ago in a vacant lot at the edge of town. I have noticed them in different states of decay, and some are well tended. Most will never bother you if you are just taking pictures, so these are easy and for sure type of trips that are easy to do if no other locations are around, or if you just want to do an easy shoot and maybe find something really cool! Maybe an old abandoned church!
In Madison the graveyards in town proper are pretty mundane but there are some interesting places to visit and a few interesting graves. Years back friends and I would use them as locations for shooting short movies. ( I had a lot of friends in film school at UW) When the location crew was in Wisconsin to shoot scenes from " I love trouble' with Nick Nolte, they shot at a little church graveyard in New London Wisconsin, and we went to the site the day after they left. Needless to say the place was immaculately groomed and had a real charm to it so we had fun taking pictures there.
If you are interested in rural graveyards a great way to find them is google maps, just look around your local area on the outskirts of town and you will be surprised what you will find. I just noticed one this week I have been driving past for 6 months!
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JohnInMi
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<Reply # 2 on 4/19/2009 6:54 PM >
| | | | If you ever come to the Metro-Detroit area, there are a couple of very large and intricate cemeteries we could visit.
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TUGG
Location: North Minneapolis
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 3 on 4/20/2009 9:40 PM >
| | | | I've always enjoyed the Minneapolis Pioneers cemetery myself.
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NotBatman
  
Location: MSP
Gender: Male
Secret Cult Member
| | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 4 on 4/20/2009 11:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by TUGG
I've always enjoyed the Minneapolis Pioneers cemetery myself.
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That's some good, old cemetery right there.
It's been a favorite site of mine for as long as I remember. With a four-year-old and general busy-ness I don't get out there nearly as much as I used to, but it has a great "air."
Lot of history there, too. friendsofthecemetery.org (Link incomplete to prevent links showing up in their web log, just in case.)
I'm a "Leave only footprints, take only pornography" kind of guy, myself. |
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Gatsby
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Like all UER people, I've only explored your mom.
| | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 5 on 4/21/2009 1:53 PM >
| | | | Pioneers and Soldiers is great.
The last person to be hanged in Minneapolis is buried there (1890's, Harry Hayward).
I only listen to 104.7 Poop. I'm always in deep shit, so I may as well listen to poop. |
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cr400
 
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 6 on 4/21/2009 5:46 PM >
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Cemetary, abandoned in Baghdad, CA. Hot, dry, desolate, lonely. This is out in the Mojave preserve, miles from everywhere. People long since passed away, not even a name to be seen on any cross, no stones or monuments. Just hot rocks and hot still air... And deathly quiet.... Until a train thunders by at 70MPH.
You can see a million miles tonite, but you can't get very far.
Honorary member of UER lifetime acheivement award winning, 2Xplorations and Guide Services, Texas. |
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TUGG
Location: North Minneapolis
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 7 on 4/22/2009 8:04 PM >
| | | | Posted by Gatsby
Pioneers and Soldiers is great.
The last person to be hanged in Minneapolis is buried there (1890's, Harry Hayward).
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That's a new little tidbit, I never knew.
I ran into something weird out there this week, I got put in cuffs for just wandering through there.
He said there had been a lot of homeless people and taggers in that area lately, but I would have thought my nice expensive cell phone and gps unit would have been enough to tell him I wasn't homeless on top of the ID in my wallet with my address. And no spray cans showing I wasn't a tagger.
So I guess the moral of the story, there's some bastard pissed off cop, arresting people for being anywhere near lake and cedar.
He let me go, thank god, but it was still a big hassle none the less.
He then proceeded to try and convince me it's a crime to just wander a cemetary in broad daylight, and when that didn't work he just left.
[last edit 4/22/2009 8:09 PM by TUGG - edited 1 times]
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Gatsby
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Like all UER people, I've only explored your mom.
| | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 8 on 4/23/2009 12:11 PM >
| | | | That pisses me off just reading about it.
Cops have been dicks to me also.
Glad to hear you're free, and thanks for sharing -
I was thinking of wandering through there to look for Harry's gravestone.
Maybe not such a smart idea (at least in broad daylight).
To keep this thread on track, do any of you know what a Potter's Field is?
They are very interesting, and I think there's one in NE Minneapolis.
I only listen to 104.7 Poop. I'm always in deep shit, so I may as well listen to poop. |
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EatsTooMuchJam
 
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Squirty "Stickybuns" von Cherrypants
| |  |  | | | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 9 on 4/23/2009 2:42 PM >
| | | | The only Potter's Field I know of in NE Minneapolis was at the site of the current Honeywell plant and the bodies in it were moved when the plant was built.
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."
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Bootyologist
Location: mpls
Gender: Male
| | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 10 on 4/23/2009 8:24 PM >
| | | | cemetaries have always been one of my favorite spots. back in highschool when i first started getting into it, a buddy of mine brought me to this little cemetary near faribault to get in some b&w 35mm action. good times...
few of my first shots from my shiny new G10 last fall.
It's not the wrong hole, it's a different one. |
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Gazoo
 
Location: Barrie, ON
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<Reply # 12 on 4/23/2009 11:19 PM >
| | | | Why yes, yes I do! (Like Graveyards that is) especially the very old.
I want to die while asleep like my grandfather,
not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car. |
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bash
Location: Wisconsin/ Milwaukee/ Menomonie
Gender: Male
light up the darkness
| | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 13 on 4/23/2009 11:32 PM >
| | | | Posted by shotgun_mario
one of the potters fields here in milwaukee is right along the abandoned asylum. Thy tore it up 2 or 3 years ago- I wonder what they did with the bodies...
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Where is this Asylum you speak of good sir?
I was recently in a cometary, on the note of a possible abandoned house that lay on the outskirts of the property. After dodging head stones and trying very hard not to anger the dead, I, accompanied by my accomplice, did in fact find the very dilapidated remnence of a house. With the roof almost completely caved in, it was hard to go too deep into the what at some time would have been a decent sized house. Nothing but some old rotted books, and some scrap wood remained. I just found it interesting that a place like this was left, no matter how crumbled in it was.
You cannot begin to live until you cease to just exist. |
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Gatsby
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Like all UER people, I've only explored your mom.
| | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 14 on 4/24/2009 6:34 PM >
| | | | Posted by EatsTooMuchJam
The only Potter's Field I know of in NE Minneapolis was at the site of the current Honeywell plant and the bodies in it were moved when the plant was built.
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That's the one I was aware of.
I wasn't sure if there were still remnants of it or not.
I remember reading about it in The Rake years ago.
One guy interviewed talked about headstones protruding from the ground in his backyard.
I only listen to 104.7 Poop. I'm always in deep shit, so I may as well listen to poop. |
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EatsTooMuchJam
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Squirty "Stickybuns" von Cherrypants
| | | | | | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 15 on 4/25/2009 4:16 AM >
| | | | A little googling seems to confirm that the bodies were moved, but who knows? They could have missed some!
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."
-Tom Waits |
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Gatsby
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Like all UER people, I've only explored your mom.
| | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 16 on 4/25/2009 1:18 PM >
| | | | Yeah, you're right ETMJ, since the defining characteristic of a Potter's Field contains such descriptions as "vague burial points" and "un-named (or non-existant) headstones".
Did you find the aformentioned "Rake" article? I'd love to read it again.
I only listen to 104.7 Poop. I'm always in deep shit, so I may as well listen to poop. |
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EatsTooMuchJam
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Squirty "Stickybuns" von Cherrypants
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<Reply # 17 on 4/25/2009 1:49 PM >
| | | | I didn't before, but I just dug it up since it's early and there isn't a lot to do yet...
http://www.secrets...ngle/tombs-unknown
Looks like there are several around MSP and the one they talk about isn't in NE by the Honeywell plant - it's in nearby St. Anthony Park and is still there. I'll have to bike over and check it out this weekend.
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away."
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shellyl
Location: Lenoir NC
Gender: Female
I have learned not sweat the petty things and not to pet the sweaty things.
| | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 18 on 4/25/2009 1:59 PM >
| | | | I practically grew up in one. My parents were contracted to care for a cemetery when I was quite young. We would go there at least twice a week all summer. I have always been fascinated by what people have put on headstones.
A mirage is not an optical illusion. It is a real phenomenon, and one can take photographs of it. The interpretation of the image, however, is up to the fantasy of the human mind.
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Cochiseg
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
Scary rabbit, isn't it?
| | Re: do you like graveyards?
<Reply # 19 on 4/26/2009 12:37 AM >
| | | | as a kid, i loved going there, but i would always get scared someway. My parents were always saying i should stay far from them, so i did...
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