I’ve
been to quite a few mounds and lots and lots of cemeteries, but never a mound
in the center of a cemetery. Mound Cemetery is in Marietta Ohio. The mound is called “Conus” and was
constructed between 800 BCE and 700 CE. The
signs say that the mound is a burial mound for chieftains.
Surrounding
it is a cemetery with people from the revolutionary war on up to the present. Marietta
was founded under the leadership of General Rufus Putnam in 1788. Plus, he was Grand Pubah (or something like
that) for the Masons!
This
guy, Commodore Abraham Whipple, was “…the first on the seas to hurl defiance at
proud Britian. Gallantly leading the way
to wrest from the mistress of the ocean her scepter, and there to wave the star
spangled banner.” This is a flowery way
to say he sank the first British ship during the American Revolution and was
the first to unfurl the Star Spangled Banner in London. Though I wonder what that really means. Did he lift the flag over our first embassy or sneak over to England and open up the flag in some pub?
A
creepy or just funny story was when a dark gray cat came up to us at the cemetery
and jumped on a grave stone. Not quite a
black cat, but close. Next, we found an
open grave. No signs of a body (luckily)! Then, to top it off, as we were driving back
to the house a fully black cat crossed our path! I’m not sure how worried to be right now.
I
was in Marietta to visit my friend Doreen.
Here she is hanging out with the cat that followed us everywhere.
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