Duxbury, MA

While visiting my sister in Duxbury, MA this week, I had to visit the Myles Standish Burial Ground, oldest maintained cemetery in the US! It was an amazing little graveyard.

Yes, I make my poor family go to old cemeteries.

This skull is pretty though, looks like a heart for a mouth.

Abigail Alden was the wife of Capt John Alden who was accused of being a witch in Salem and escaped to Duxbury.

Myles Standish is buried in a plot surrounded by the cannons.

His gravestone is very bland and fairly new. 

John Alden, said to be the first person to set foot on Plymouth Rock!

CRAZY hair on this figure.

Some more wild hair!

Flowers in the Graveyard

My mom and I were on a weekend adventure in Bucks County and we stopped by a beautiful cemetery in the morning to take some photos. Here are a few. More on my other website, The Mare's Tales.

Dear Annie

We miss thee from our home dear Annie.
We miss thee from thy place.
A shadow o'ver our life is cast.
We miss the sunshine of thy face.
-epitaph on gravestone of Annie H. Landis
age 19 yrs, 8 mo, 22 days
died May 18, 1907 East Petersburg, PA



It's no secret I love to walk around graveyards. I'm usually not interested in graves that date before 1900 but the epitaph on Annie Landis' grave made me a little weepy. Poor girl, only 19 years old. Didn't have the chance to marry or have children. I imagined her mother writing the words to go on her grave in tears.

So far this is my favorite grave in my town of East Petersburg, PA. Nice skull.



And only a weirdo like me brings a jack be little pumpkin to the graveyard.