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  1. RE: klezmor.im/@carkner/1169814059

    a good notification from FindAGrave, someone took a photo of the grave of Louis Grupp's father (mentioned in the thread below), Abraham Samuel Grupp (1860–1932), a #flautist born in Chudniv & a small-time #klezmer musician in New York City around the time of WWI.
    findagrave.com/memorial/205948

    #graves #cemetery #MusicHistory

  2. Friday, January 16, 2026

    Russian drone strikes Lviv playground -- 70 Russian soldiers destroyed during assault near Kharkiv -- "Disgraceful statement": Ukraine condemns International Committee of the Red Cross over moral equivalence on energy strikes -- The Ukrainian war cemetery that can't stop growing ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  3. Friday, August 8, 2025

    This is child trafficking: Russia launches catalog of Ukrainian children for adoption, sorted by eye and hair color — Inflicting ‘serious losses,’ Ukraine strikes Russian radar systems, landing craft in Crimea — Over 70% of Ukrainians reject Russian peace plan, support for US proposal remains divisive — What it’s really like being Black in Russia … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  4. A quotation from Lincoln

    We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Speech (1863-11-19), “Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg [Gettysburg Address],” Pennsylvania

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7581…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bless #burialground #casualties #cemetery #consecration #dedication #hallow #sacrifice #sanctification #war #lincoln

  5. The first time I ever got to go trick or treating was when I was 21 years old. My roommate Viki went as a vampire and I went as her victim in a long white nightgown and a bloody neck. The only place we went to, the woman said, "Aren't you too old for this?" It crushed all my joy. I didn't get to go as a kid because I grew up in a Jehovah's Witness family.

    In downtown Fredericton there's an old cemetery that everyone uses as a shortcut. That Halloween night, the gates were open, so Viki and I walked in. We passed a watchman who said hi. But when we got to the other side, the gate was locked.

    We turned around to exit the way we came in, only to find that gate was locked, too. The watchman had shut us in!

    We wandered around looking for a way out, and then city workers saw us and started yelling at us for breaking into the cemetery. We explained what had happened and asked for them to let us out. They didn't have keys. So they pulled their truck up to the cast iron fence and helped pull us over the fence.

    Who else gets locked into an old cemetery on their first Hallowe'en? My nightgown got ripped, but it was totally worth it. It brought back all the joy that had been sucked away by the mean woman telling me I was too old for trick or treating.

    FWIW, the last time I went trick or treating was when I was in my forties. If mummering were a thing here, I'd do that, too.
    #halloween #TrickorTreat #ageism #mummers #cemetery #ExJW

  6. A worn grave marker. Aragon, Spain. I find there's a kind of beauty to this grave marker, both in its worn and neglected state and in what you can imagine it once was.

    #photography #cemetery #Headstone #GraveMarker #Aragon #Spain

  7. **NEW BLOG POST** A chance discovery concerning not one but two Death Penny's found in situ in Tomnahurich Cemetery, Inverness. A Death Penny is a plaque commemorating those who had fallen in WWI. Has anyone come across similar in their cemetery wanderings?

    (Please see link below)

    mortephotography.co.uk/blog.as

    #cemeterychat #cemetery #graveyard #graves #gravemarker #archaeology #WorldWarOne #WW1 #death #deathhistory #history