Spend more time in graveyards
Cambridge MA Old Burial Ground
Toronto Saint John’s York Mills
p.s. he says remember hermann: As you walk through the cemetery, notice the old iron crosses, somewhat unique for a German community that prided itself on stone and brick. The first Roman Catholic cemeteries in the area used wooden and wrought iron crosses. Local blacksmiths made the iron crosses, a generations-old tradition brought here by the Germans. In the Protestant cemeteries, the earliest gravestones were made of cotton rock and sandstone cut by local artisans. A number of these, dating from the 1850s, can be seen in the Hermann City Cemetery on East Hill