messages in a mason jar
Many think my interest in visiting cemeteries is morbid but I find each graveyard offers intriguing glimpses into the past. I am not alone in this avocation. Bob Bowman confesses to being a graveyard junkie, and like him, I prefer the older sites with unusual tombstones. You read the dates and wonder about the lives lived; you see a lone marker and wonder where the rest of the family is buried; you note the personal remembrances left by mourners. This man died young at 24 and was buried in the family plot far from his Texas A&M alma mater and career in College Station. He is not forgotten. Through the glass jar one can barely read handwritten letters wrapped in a wedding program.
FM 193
Crosby County, Texas
9.21.2013
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