cemetery use
Back almost three years ago in July 2021, Funeral Director Daily brought you this story of how a renewable energy company, Verogy, had put a 7,000 panel solar energy farm inside a cemetery in Torrington, Connecticut. In essence they took out a 20-year lease on the cemetery property with the energy they…
Read MoreAn ongoing debate with cemeteries: Community assets for enjoyment or sacred spaces for the deceased?
There is no doubt that with the advent of rising cremation in our society cemeteries are used less and less, as a percentage of all deaths, by families as places of permanent memorialization. However, there is still a large group of families that “do” select a space in a cemetery for the permanent…
Read MoreI was out at our hometown non-denominational cemetery, Kinkead Cemetery, on Memorial Day. It’s the large cemetery on the north end of our community where I ride my bike through on Summer Saturday mornings. It was named after Alexander and William Kinkead, the founders of our city, Alexandria. I went out there…
Read MoreBack in the summer of 1991 I visited Europe and specifically, Germany, for the first time in my life. There are a couple of things that I remember vividly from that experience. First of all, I remember being served bottled water at dinner and then being charged for it. Back home we were always afforded…
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