Month: March 2010

Cemeteries, Photography

Beautiful Day

Shelly

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I went to Owen County, to take photos in River Hill Cemetery. I’ve driven by it thousands of times, but never stopped. It looks pretty small from the road, so my plan was to take a few photos there, then go on to the larger cemetery in town, but when I actually got there, I realized it’s bigger than I thought. It’s also in pretty sad condition. Like Methodist Cemetery in Ellettsville, there are broken headstones that no one has bothered to upright. They’ve been left to sink into the ground.

There were also a few headstones that looked like they were made from concrete. They’re crumbling now, and I wondered if that was a “poor folks” option. Better than a temporary metal marker from the funeral home, but not by much.

Cemeteries, Photography

Lula R.

Shelly

What a difference a couple of years makes.

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March 15, 2010

Even accounting for the fact that the bright, unidirectional sunlight in the first photo increased legibility, it’s still pretty amazing just how much further damage has been done to this stone in the two years since I first photographed it. It’s going to be completely obscured by lichen before long.

Crankypantsing, Photography

Work

Shelly

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I spent the last day and a half at work, cataloging this pitifully small stack of government documents from the Netherlands. All in Dutch, and the only available cataloging records were in Dutch, as well. No corporate bodies, no subjects, no call numbers, and the series fields were a mess. Let’s just say that it was kind of frustrating, and there just wasn’t a whole lot to show for it all when I finally finished.