Deep Ohio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice pics, good memories.

 

In my late teens, I took care of a country churchyard and cemetery about three miles from home. It was the church my paternal grandparents attended with their families in their youth, and the cemetery where four generations of my family are buried.

I'm guessing that's west central Ohio.

Looks like between Delaware and Marion to me.

Looks like a lot of Ohio.  But I suppose it is west central indeed.

In my late teens, I took care of a country churchyard and cemetery about three miles from home. It was the church my paternal grandparents attended with their families in their youth, and the cemetery where four generations of my family are buried

 

Country cemeteries  in Kentucky...at least near Louisville.... often were family cemetaries set back on some prominent location back on a farm.  I recall a particularly melancholy one that was surrounded by these huge old cedars (brought to mind that Bocklin painting), set up on a rise..you could look out from it and see the Knobs and the Indiana bluffs on the Ohio. 

 

There are some old church cemetaries too that I used to visit...the idea was to spot the oldest gravestone, and where the person was born.

 

Graveyard studies was big in the geneology field.  Back in the 1970s the Kentucky Historical Society used to publish a quarterly newsletter (actually sort of a "zine") of graveyard rosters...people would visit those old familiy cemetaries and list who was buried there, and even unmarked or lost graves, send it the list and location/name of the cemetary and it would be published.

 

Then there is that craft of doing gravestone rubbings....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is just outside (northwest) of Norwalk in north central Ohio.  And yes!  There is not all just flat land in this part of the state (you have to go a little farther to the west)!

Yay! My common sense kicked in and I was able to figure out how to post images! WOOHOO :clap:

 

 

 

PS.  Sorry, Jeff I just kind of realized that I hijacked your topic with my pictures; I initially thought "Country Road Riding" meant for any photos from rural areas.  My bad :(

does anyone have pics from the ski resorts in and around ohio(perfect north).  I have never seen what boston mills (i think thats the name), the other one next to that, and mad river mountain look like.