“I find cemeteries irresistible. I go because they’re kind of beautiful, and peaceful, and they’re the sort of wilderness of the dead. You never know what might happen or what you might find. You can learn a lot about a place, a time, a culture, from its cemeteries.”
These sentiments expressed by someone called Jill Schensul in an article published in “The Record” and repeated in today’s issue of Wellington’s daily newspaper The Dominion Post says it all for me. She wrote about Key West’s Old Cemetery in Florida, and Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, and Papenburg Cemetery in Germany. Everything she wrote applies to Karori Cemetery – mysterious epitaphs, interesting people interred, multiple occupancy of plots, unmarked graves, and much more.
“Big or small, far or near, a cemetery visit is guaranteed to be atmospheric – as well as a reminder how brief life really is and the need to make the time you have above the ground count.”
I really have no idea who Jill Schensul is, so I did what we do nowadays – Googled her. Seems she’s a travel writer for The Record, a newspaper in New Jersey. And also the Lowell Thomas Travel Writer of the Year (which year?), according to a Twitter account in the name of Jill Schensul. Whoever she is, thanks for the sentiments about cemeteries, which I heartily endorse.
These sentiments expressed by someone called Jill Schensul in an article published in “The Record” and repeated in today’s issue of Wellington’s daily newspaper The Dominion Post says it all for me. She wrote about Key West’s Old Cemetery in Florida, and Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, and Papenburg Cemetery in Germany. Everything she wrote applies to Karori Cemetery – mysterious epitaphs, interesting people interred, multiple occupancy of plots, unmarked graves, and much more.
“Big or small, far or near, a cemetery visit is guaranteed to be atmospheric – as well as a reminder how brief life really is and the need to make the time you have above the ground count.”
I really have no idea who Jill Schensul is, so I did what we do nowadays – Googled her. Seems she’s a travel writer for The Record, a newspaper in New Jersey. And also the Lowell Thomas Travel Writer of the Year (which year?), according to a Twitter account in the name of Jill Schensul. Whoever she is, thanks for the sentiments about cemeteries, which I heartily endorse.
