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I think the thing she is objecting to is the
Halloween "Sinners, Scandals and Suicides"
hype...the idea of picnicing in the cemetery is
an old one, and not distasteful to most people, I would think...
Our family has a pioneer family cemetery that is
owned and maintained by us. My mother tells of
going to the cemetery on Memorial Day every year
when she was a girl (she's 85 now) and they would
mow, plant flowers, etc. and then have a big
family picnic. It's hard to get the family
interested now,
My mom said back when Mount Moriah was still safe, her uncle (who raised her) used to take her to see her dad's grave (he died in 1932, 5 months before she was born), and they'd bring a picnic lunch.
I love old cemeteries and I think the deceased would want us to celebrate their lives and enjoy the beauty of where they rest.
Some folks really need to lighten up!
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From: "Ann Brown"
> Good, then my family isn't the only nuts o
>From: "Gwendolyn Kaminski"
>To:
>Subject: Halloween Events at Laurel Hill Cemetery this October*
>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:48:59 -0400
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>HALLOWEEN EVENTS AT LAUREL HILL CEMETERY
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>
>
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>*NEW THIS YEAR!
>
>Friday, October 27th:
>
>Dining with the Dead
>Halloween Dinner and Tour Package
>
>Join us for a ghoulish dining experience. This package will include a
>catered, candlelit dinner in the Cemetery Gatehouse, followed by
One of the ways that we honor our dead at Laurel Hill is by holding special events like this which raise funds to maintain the cemetery (most of which is not endowed) and restore individual monuments. The Friends of Laurel Hill, the host organization of these events, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the cemetery since 1976, all through volunteer efforts like this one. In all of our events, we go out of our way to encourage a respect for the cemetery and those who rest there -- we've turned
Really sorry that you feel this way. Laurel Hill Cemetery is one of the
very old ones in the City of Philadelphia. One of the Colleges here in the
city, for Halloween every year does guided tours. People consider themselves
lucky to get tickets.
Also, Laurel Hill is one of the BEST KNOWN Historic Cemeteries in the
Nation. Wish that I was going to be in town, would have snapped up 4 of those
tickets right quick.
When I was a child my grandmother took me to the cemetery to "visit my
a
I have an original cemetery deed sold by the Odd Fellows' Cemetery
Company of Phila. to Eliza SLEMONS, dated Nov. 12, 1870. It was among
papers belonging to my great-uncle but I don't know of any connection to
our family. As far as I know, we have no one buried in that cemetery.
If Eliza SLEMONS is in your family, I'll be happy to send it to you.
Contact me off list.
Linda Foh
Saylorsburg, PA
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--- Eugene Stackhouse wrote:
> Laurel Hill was designed as a cemetery in which
> people could visit their
> relatives. People used to have picnics at the graves
> of their families.
>
> Gene Stackhouse
> Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel
> without beer. -- Henry Lawson
>
> >From: KateP215@aol.com
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This happens in SE Kentucky as well.
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I have family in West Virginia who take a Memor
Couldn't even finish reading this.....this is in such POOR taste!!! "DINNER WITH THE DEAD"????? There are many more appropriate ways to honor our dead. Think about the origin and reasons behind Halloween and then decide if this is appropriate.
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I have family in West Virginia who take a Memorial Day Picnic to the
cemetery along with many other families who have friends and family buried
at the cemetery. This has been a community event for years.
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I see no problem with this.
Please lighten up.
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> Couldn't even finish reading this.....this is in such POOR taste!!! "DINNER WITH
> THE DEAD"????? There are many more appropriate ways to honor our dead. Think
> about the origin and reasons behind Halloween and then decide if this is
> appropriate.
>
It may have been a generational thing. We have a photo from the 30s of my dad and all his cousins sitting with their grandmother by a grave at Mt. Moriah (I assume their grandfather's) on one of their annual Memorial Day outings to the cemetery. They were Irish. It was a family picnic where everyone tended the graves, mowed the grass and pulled the weeds. I wish Mt. Moriah had had the sense of history (and responsibility) and the organizational leadership over the years to maintain the cemetery the way Laur
Good, then my family isn't the only nuts on the block. Several years ago my
sisters and mother and I went to the cemetery in NJ and had Lunch with my
Grandparents and told them all about what was going on. Had a grand time.
Ann
On 9/26/06, KateP215@aol.com wrote:
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> Really sorry that you feel this way. Laurel Hill Cemetery is one of the
> very old ones in the City of Philadelphia. One of the Colleges here
> in the
> city, for Halloween every year does guided tours. People
> consid
I think someone was perhaps thinking of spooks and goblins and ghoulishhorror when they couldn't finish reading the original invitation. Sometimesit is not what is written, but how it is perceived.
Ann Brown
On 9/27/06, Betty Lynne wrote:>> This happens in SE Kentucky as well.>> -----Original Message-----> From: pa-phila-mount-moriah-cemetery-bounces@rootsweb.com> [mailto:pa-phila-mount-moriah-cemetery-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of> Carol Ritchie> S
Linda's right.
I'm beginning to think that Mount Moriah is a lost cause.
With Laurel Hill, there was cooperation with the management and staff.
NOT so with MM.
Terry C
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I have family in West Virginia who take a Memorial Day Picnic to the
cemetery along with many other families who have friends and family buried
at the cemetery. This has been a community event for years.
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This happens in SE Kentucky as well.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:29 AM
To: pa-phila-mount-moriah-cemetery@rootsweb.com;
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The Philly Roots list has added this wise reminder to their messages. There was an awful lot of unnecessary repetition here today! :-)
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Then, of course, you shouldn't attend the event!
In any case, Laurel Hill Cemetery is giving the event.
You can contact Laurel Hill.
In a message dated 9/26/2006 8:58:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
familyhx3@rcn.com writes:
Couldn't even finish reading this.....this is in such POOR taste!!! "DINNER
WITH THE DEAD"????? There are many more appropriate ways to honor our dead.
Think about the origin and reasons behind Halloween and then decide if this is
appropriate.
Sndtenterprises
Gene
Laurel Hill was designed as a cemetery in which people could visit their
relatives. People used to have picnics at the graves of their families.
Gene Stackhouse
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. -- Henry Lawson
>From: KateP215@aol.com
>Reply-To: pa-phila-mount-moriah-cemetery@rootsweb.com
>To: pa-phila-mount-moriah-cemetery@rootsweb.com
>Subject: Re: [PA-PHILA-MOUNT-MORIAH-CEMETERY] FW: Halloween Events at
>LaurelHill Ceme...
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:15:40 EDT
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>Really sorry