Sunday, October 19, 2008


On a ride in our neighborhood, we went on a small road we had ridden before several times, where they were doing road work and the road was blocked to cars. The road work had stopped and instead there were about 6 or 8 college students digging by the road, with a man writing on a clipboard. As we got up next to them, you could see they were digging up old unmarked graves just off the side of the road. They were small and shallow, about 10 dug up so far, and many with almost completely intact skeletons laying in them. I asked one digger if it had been a cemetery and he said yes. I asked if it belonged to the nearby farmhouse. He said no, it was a cemetery from the Middle Ages and the time of Charlemagne . The students were painstakingly dusting and cleaning off each skeleton. About 30 more spaces had tags on them like they were about to be dug up.

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