Nerd Manicure, She Wrote

I matched a new nerd manicure to a new book.

Good times.

Local Haunted Tour

On Tuesday I will begin my October-long Countdown to Halloween! I can't wait!

To help set the tone, I thought I'd share again this little tour I posted last year.

As you may know, we moved to a new town and state in January 2018. Today I’d like to give you a virtual spooky tour of this place: Richmond, Kentucky!

(Photos by Yours Truly.)

Richmond Cemetery

This cemetery is wonderfully atmospheric. It includes the graves of soldiers from the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Little Bighorn, and the Civil War (both sides), as well as a U.S. ambassador, a Hall of Fame baseball player, and, in the words of the official site, “frontiersmen and farmers who struggled to settle Kentucky and shape the land. A Shoshone Chief, a pair of Gypsy brothers, and many young mothers buried with their infants."

From the cemetery’s official website:

The Richmond Cemetery was chartered over one hundred and fifty years ago on January 25th, 1848, but eight years would pass before anyone would be buried there. Additional time was required to procure land and enact a needed tax. The city’s dead continued to be buried on a knoll on the north side of East Main Street. By 1852 this graveyard was unable to accommodate more bodies. It was unkempt, unprotected and according to the Weekly Messenger, new graves could not be dug “without disinterring the moldering remains of some person who had for years been sleeping in the tomb. The graves of slumbering hundreds are exposed to be trampled upon by horses, cattle, hogs, etc.” In response to this plea, the cemetery incorporators acted. Between 1852 and 1856 the corporation bought 18 acres of land from Joel Walker, previously owned by Colonel Humphrey Jones. In later years additional land was purchased above the first graves.

( But wait! There's much more! Take me on the rest of the haunted tour! )