Happy Halloween...Grave with a View

We ended our day yesterday with a spooky walk through a giant old cemetery in New Haven, VT which boasted two unique tombs.  One is for the man, John Brown who fired the "Shot heard round the world" for the Revolutionary War.  We know this because a nice older man on a power walk who lives next door came to tell us it was there and that he worked on his gun left in a trunk at his Great Aunt's house.  The other tomb is for a crazy old man Timothy Clark Smith who was so afraid of being buried alive he had a special grave built for him when he passed away in 1893.
The New Haven man told us he had a movie of this man's life and would send us the DVD in the mail and took our address (how cool is that?).  Mr. Smith grave is a large grass mound that has a cement tube that leads down to his face (ewwww!) and on top of that is a 14x14 inch piece of glass so he could see out and others could see in if were mistakenly buried alive.  A bell was placed in his hand so he could ring it just in case. Pretty creepy but cool.  When we looked inside with a light we could only see dirt, mildew and condensation by the way.  But as we walked the cemetery we found interesting people.  One was born on my mom's birthday, a bunch died in the big flood in 1830, one woman lived to be almost 100 and they listed it as 99yrs, 6 mos, 8dys...so close!  We liked seeing  the old stones and found many Betseys, Orins and last names Hoyt, Smith and Wilcox.  It was a really neat way to celebrate Halloween weekend doing something creepy and reaching back into the past.    Happy Halloween!  (Happy Birthday Benny!!)  Send us pictures of your costumes.

Happy Spooky Trails!
Jack