I am the kind of parent that childless people hate. I take my kids to hip restaurants and am not deterred by the complete lack of booster seats, high chairs, or chicken fingers on the menu. I am simply not content to while away my weekends at home or limit our outings to places that have designated stroller parking. I wheel our mammoth double wide into petite boutiques and carry my cooing baby into austere galleries. We boldly go where no family unit has gone before.

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4th October 2011

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The Silent Past. Oak Hill Cemetery. Lawrence, KS.

Like shuttered windows on the past, historic cemeteries protect the secrets of their inhabitants, inciting fascination and perhaps a trace of fear in those who visit.  Brief missives on crumbling gravestones offer fleeting glimpses into another time.

At the solemn and beautiful Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, KS, most of the grave sites date from the late 1800’s.  Many influential people from the early days of the state’s formation are buried at Oak Hill.

However, the anonymous graves move me the most:

Unadorned stones bearing the words “Husband” and “Wife” lying side by side in the midst of fallen leaves,

A faded “Gone Home” with the time worn letters barely remaining,

“Little Roy” carved into an enormous stone,

And the heartbreaking “Harry 1905 Aged 4 Days.”

The Lawrence Visitors Bureau offers an iTour of Oak Hill Cemetery. A brochure of several historic Lawrence cemeteries is also available online.

http://www.visitlawrence.com/itours

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