Wesleyan Cemetery in Cincinnati has been abused and abandoned over the years and, while the remains of veterans of every war the United States has been involved in, including the American Revolution, are interred there, services have been absent for years.

This year a Kiwanis chapter organized a Memorial Day service.

The Queen City ainbow Band provided the tunes

 

Something I have never seen in this cemetery - a lack of parking.

 

There were publishers, preachers and politicians in attendance

 

 

Decorations

 

Zombies

 

Meanwhile over at Spring Grove Cemetery things were less lively but more colorful.

The guy outside the cemetery selling decorations

 

 

 

 

 

Great shots!

Spring Grove is an amazing cemetery!

Neat stuff! Cemeteries are some of the most beautiful outdoor spaces in many cities. I'd like to see them used more by the public for things like picnics, but a lot of people seem to have a real hangup about that, and I've heard that some cemeteries even prohibit any activity other than that associated with burials and visitations.

 

Lindenwood Cemetery, not far from my house, is an old cemetery with big old trees and acres of rolling terrain, absolutely gorgeous. They had some problems years ago with kids on bikes riding off-road, so they put up a sign that prohibits bikes altogether. I rode my bike out there to visit my grandparents' graves, thinking they certainly wouldn't have a problem with an old guy on an ancient three-speed, but they stopped me and told me I had to leave my bike at the gate if I wanted to visit the graves.

 

I left and came back in a noisy, smelly, three-quarter-ton diesel pickup, and nobody paid any attention.

heh, I did some offroad riding in a cemetery at night once. Yes, I was a teenager. Yes, I was stupid. Yes, I hurt mightily for days.

Stuftodo at Spring Grove

http://www.springgrove.org/sg/calendar/EventCalendar/EventCalendar.shtm