Here is one my ever wise wife vetoed. And the stamp really looks
nice too! Oh well. I thought you might enjoy the prose anyway. The
location is a semi rural hillside with 3 graves.
Do other members of the group have letterbox locations they worked up
and then decided at the last moment not to use?
Here goes:
Name: RIP - Martin Borger - 1828
Beavercreek, Greene County, Ohio
Difficulty 2
NOT Placed 23 November 2001
The agricultural world of newly settled Greene County in the early
19th century is now difficult to imagine. Most of the countryside
was still covered with old growth timber. The memory of Shawnee
Indians just over the hill at Old Town was still fresh on the minds
of living men and women.
Luxury was having a real glass pane for a window in the log cabin.
Work was hard and life was short. Heat came from a fireplace that
was never satisfied for wood in the cold and dark winter nights.
Children were born without much help from neighbors and certainly
none from doctors.
For this walk, park in the gravel pull-off at the west end of XXXXX.
Cross the road walking west. Follow the grassy seasonal road along
the creek at a heading of about 340 degrees until you cross the
culvert.
Turn to 230 degrees and walk 100 paces along the edge of the field to
a pile of large stones. Take a new heading of 286 degrees and walk
200 paces to the top of the hill.
Rest in Peace, Martin Borger. The historical society has been out
writing mystical runes on small tags in a foreign tongue. The tags
are near the tombstones. Stop a moment and think about all the times
this small family of gravestones has seen over the last 175 years.
The path and gravestones are on private property. It belongs to XXX
across the street. I do not believe anyone would mind a few
wanderers paying their respects at this cemetery. [but I was out
voted] I have come here occasionally to think on the meaning of the
shortness of life.
On the way back to the car, think about the shortness of life and the
goodness of doing things with your family that will matter in the
long run.