I HAVE A THING ABOUT CEMETERIES
CARE TO REMEMBER
Stroudsburg Cemetery, Monroe County, PA
While on the road between shows, I am afforded the time to stop and smell the roses, so to speak. I love to take the weekdays easy and unstructured and explore interesting areas as I happen upon them. After a stay at a Hampton Inn in Stroudsburg, PA on my way to the I-80, I noticed this amazing cemetery. I have a thing about cemeteries…I find them so peaceful and lovely. Some may think this strange but I feel the care to remember those from the past and the maintenance of that care so beautiful.
Here are a pew photos I took before getting back on the road.
“The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Stroudsburg Cemetery on Dreher Avenue near Main Street is the host to the graves of J. Summerfield Staples, a Stroudsburg resident who served as Abraham Lincoln's representative recruit in the Civil War, and William D. Walton, who served in the medical corps during the Civil War.” - Monroe County Historical Association
The newer grave marker of John Summerfield Staples, identifies him more accurately as Abraham Lincoln’s ‘representative recruit’ rather than his ‘substitute’ during the Civil War, The grave is located in Stroudsburg Cemetery. Photo taken on November 23, 2013.
Credit: Pocono Record