[QwertyKPH]

Wow. Never heard of anything like this before!

[plain talk]

maybe I missed it but what state is this?

[tuffydoodle]

Why are all of these interesting stories being moved to chat? I don't think I've ever seen so many stories moved to chat so quickly.

[beavus]

Trees! Those damned things are dangerous! Stand too close for too long and they will engulf you like an amoeba!

STAY AWAY FROM THE TREES!!!!

[fanfan]

Huber met the men Friday at Alton Cemetery, applied foamy shaving cream to the indentations carved into the stone and used a ruler to smooth the foam flush with the stone.

"It kind of makes it jump out at you," Huber said as the foam filled up the lettering.

Interesting way to show the words - in relief.

[Publius]

I saw something similar in the early Nineties when I was horseback riding in the hills in rural King County, Washington.

Once there was a thriving coal mining industry in King County, but the mines played out, and the mining towns became ghost towns. When I was horseback riding through the ghost town of Franklin, I found myself riding through a grove with marble stones at the foot of trees, turned at all angles. I looked at one stone and realized I was looking at the headstone of a person who had died of typhoid in 1910. Other stones turned out to be headstones of people who had died in the same period in a typhoid epidemic.

It turned out that I was riding through the cemetery of the town of Franklin. Over the previous 80 years, the rain forest had reclaimed the cemetery, swallowing its gravestones -- and no doubt its bodies.

It was a sobering thought.

[melt]

That was one greedy tree. It just gobbled up the entire grave for itself. There was no way it was going to share its fertilizer source with any other tree, that's for sure.

Interesting story. LOL!

[BIRDS]

This truly is remarkable, particularly with that hand pointing toward the sky on the top of the marker. Really a wonderful, inspiring story.

I'd love to find out more about the two women buried there.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fanfan. Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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[DJ MacWoW]

There is an old marker (1800's) in my church cemetery that's being "swallowed" by an ancient tree. Unfortunately, last winter, kids kicked what was showing of the marker outside the tree and broke it.