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Boston, MassachusettsWednesday, October 20, 2004
While walking The Freedom Trail in Boston, Massachusetts, I visit the Historic Granary Burying Ground where I find the final resting places of such patriots as John Hancock, Paul Revere, James Otis, Robert Treat Paine, and Samuel Adams. Also, the many victims of the Boston Massacre are buried here as well.
Talk about old! I find it rather odd, why are the gravestones so weather-worn? It seems to me it'd take more than a few hundred years to cause this much erosion. Like the broken and worn teeth of an old man in the throes of a major case of gingivitis, the markers are even starting to sink into the ground.
As I tour the cemetery, I learn a bit about its storied history. One striking fact, the common practice of burying a multitude of the dead within a single plot, all stacked atop one another like a tall plate of pancakes. The origin of the cemetery's name comes from an old, pre-revolutionary granary that once stood where the Park Street Church now stands.
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