1918 (written in stone)
My wife and I are local history buffs. A few years ago we became interested in the many "named places" scattered throughout the Ozark foothills where we live. I'm sure the rural areas near your homes are replete with these ghost towns and former hamlets where nothing but memories and notations in a gazetteer now exists. Many of them were old railroad stops, lumber sites, or post offices.
This is all very interesting to history buffs, but perhaps not so much to everyone else. However, in our many day trips we noticed something that should be of current interest: the huge number of headstones in the overgrown and untended graveyards with the death dates of 1918-1919. That hundred-year-old plague year should be very interesting to us who are living through the current plague year. Whether we like it or not, whether we believe it or not, the gravestones of 2020 and 2021 will tell the tale.
It will be written in stone.
This is all very interesting to history buffs, but perhaps not so much to everyone else. However, in our many day trips we noticed something that should be of current interest: the huge number of headstones in the overgrown and untended graveyards with the death dates of 1918-1919. That hundred-year-old plague year should be very interesting to us who are living through the current plague year. Whether we like it or not, whether we believe it or not, the gravestones of 2020 and 2021 will tell the tale.
It will be written in stone.
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