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8/9/2007
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Six Feet Under
Author: Christine Kreyling Source: Nashville Scene
Title: SIX FEET UNDER
A cemetery is history in stone. The Protestant Cemetery in Rome chronicles everything from Caius Cestius’ first century pyramid to the tombs of 19th century English poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. London’s Highgate Cemetery, with its well upholstered tombs, tells us as much about Victorian England as a Dickens novel.
Nashville’s burying grounds offer a similar local history lesson. Their narrative is not merely a chronology of names and dates but the tale of a whole society—its attitudes and customs, fashions and foibles—pieced together from sculpture and inscription. The land of the dead can tell us a great deal about the living.
Death is often described as the great leveler, but the places where the dead are planted reflect the hierarchy of the planters. For a cemetery, after all, is property, and as such it embodies those twin values of real estate: square footage and location, location, location.
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