Christmakkah
Every city in Connecticut has a green - a large grassy city center. The greens used to be church burial grounds (many of the greens have the city’s first church), but most of the cities have moved the gravestones to another place, creating a park! No, they did not move the bodies. So in the middle of New Haven is a beautiful green which is home to summer concerts and night movies and many people walking through the town. Greens are one of my favorite parts of New England - despite their dark past. I love seeing the city open up.
Currently, the city is putting up a huge Christmas tree. The tree looks like it was transplanted into the center of the grass. I suppose a good ol’ Christmas tree stand just won’t do it in this case. The other day I was walking through the green (with no coat - it was upper 60s) and saw a crew of 8 men and 2 large utility trucks, both with cherry pickers, working on the lights for this tree. I felt like soon all the characters from the grinch would soon be surrounding the tree and singing carols.
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So, let me get this straight. There’s still people in the ground. AND they dug a hole to transplant the huge tree. SOOOO, they had to dig into some people in order to plant the tree?
Also, if I remember my cemetery etiquette, it is disrespectful to walk on the spot where someone is buried. It’s a shame that the old buildings on the east coast are treated more respectfully than the dead people in the ground who probably built them. Not that we should disrespect those buildings by an means, just that we should respect those people. Maybe they should build a suspension deck over the green and plant grass on top of that - still green, still in the middle of town, not literally walking on top of people.
They’re still being respected - just elswhere. There is a very respectful and famous (for a cemetery) cemetery a few blocks away. And since the Green is no longer a cemetery, then the rules of not walking on the gravesites no longer apply, I think. So even though there are no bodies in the cemetery, it would be inappropriate to walk where the bodies would be, and alothough there are bodies in the Green, it is appropriate to walk there.