
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
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Hi, I am Traci Ryland and my blog talks about the different cemeteries I have visited. As a student at the University of Georgia, I took obituaries over the phone at the Athens Daily News. I have met many funeral directors over the years and am comfortable with the subjects of death, funerals and cemeteries.
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
2d ago
To be honest, I hadn’t planned to do a Part II on this cemetery. I thought I’d covered all the ..read more
Close to Home: Wandering Through Fayette County, Ga.’s County Line Christian Church Cemetery, Part I
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
2w ago
Our next stop before a well-earned lunch was the cemetery at County Line Christian Church just below Brooks. What little ..read more
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
3w ago
Note: Tomorrow marks the 12th anniversary of this blog! WOW! I never imagined I would have enough to write about ..read more
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
4M ago
Our next stop lay just a little southwest from Woolsey in Brooks, Ga., an equally small town. I knew nothing ..read more
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
5M ago
The next stop on my Fayette County, Ga. cemetery hopping adventure was Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery. Just down the rode ..read more
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
6M ago
After spending eight posts talking about London’s prestigious Westminster Abbey, I’m downshifting to a much smaller burial ground that’s much ..read more
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
6M ago
Many thanks to the amazing Grace Barrett of Tours by Grace for leading us through Westminster Abbey! She was fabulous ..read more
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
7M ago
Many thanks to the amazing Grace Barrett of Tours by Grace for leading us through Westminster Abbey!
This week, let’s explore that area of Westminster Abbey known as Poet’s Corner. More than 100 poets/writers are buried or have memorials there. Some of the memorial “squares” on the floor indicate where the person is actually buried if they are not interred in the Abbey. But not all of them.
There are also several clergymen and actors buried in this transept, and composer George Frederick Handel.
I’ll warn you that you’re going to see a lot of feet in these pictures simply because it was very c ..read more
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
8M ago
Many thanks to the amazing Grace Barrett of Tours by Grace for leading us through Westminster Abbey!
I’m sure many people have a favorite monument/memorial at Westminster Abbey. There are so many that made my own jaw drop. But I think you’d be hard pressed to not find yourself in a bit of awe when gazing up at the monument to British mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author Sir Isaac Newton.
If you asked the average person on the street, they might say “Oh, he’s the guy who discovered gravity.”
However, there was clearly much more to the man than that. His work P ..read more
Adventures in Cemetery Hopping
8M ago
Many thanks to the amazing Grace Barrett of Tours by Grace for leading us through Westminster Abbey!
When last I posted, I was still at Westminster Abbey and sharing the graves royals that got the “not so royal” treatment. The last monument I shared was for a non-royal named Ludovic Stewart, who isn’t known for much at all.
Stewart’s monument was created by Hubert Le Sueur (1580-1658), a French sculptor who trained with Renaissance artist Jean de Boulogne (known better as Giambologna) in Florence, Italy. Hubert moved to England and spent most of his career there, providing monuments, portraits ..read more