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Written by DeadGirl
Tuesday, 08 March 2005
Local man fears work on housing development may damage graves By Theresa Edo / Daily News Staff Tuesday, March 8, 2005 ASHLAND -- Ronald Marchetti's parents Nick and Ida have been buried at Wildwood Cemetery for almost 13 and more than 15 years, respectively, and he wants to keep it that way. Ron Marchetti, 67, said he worries that work at an adjacent housing development, on property owned by Fafard Real Estate and Development Corporation, might disturb his and other family plots. His father, a former Ashland police officer and a decorated World War II veteran, and his mother are buried near a roughly 100-foot drop from the highest point of the cemetery to the nearby Avenue of the Americas development on Chestnut Street. "My parents are about 25 feet away from there. What happens if there's a heavy rainstorm? They could wash away," said Marchetti, who visits the gravesite once or twice a week during good weather. Yesterday crews worked to line up large boulders along the edge of cemetery road Highland Avenue, at the east tip of the cemetery, as safety barriers. Marchetti said he noticed on Friday only a orange, plastic mesh fence marking the precipitous cliff. Fafard recently determined the lot line for the parcel is closer to the cemetery than previously believed, according to a statement faxed to the Daily News yesterday. "Representatives of Fafard met with town officials last Friday, and Fafard agreed to grant an easement or give land to correct the encroachment," thestatement reads. Also, Fafard agreed to provide a guardrail and a landscaped berm with evergreen trees to provide a buffer between the cemetery and the development. "You would think they would have met before they dug it up," Marchetti said yesterday. "If that begins to wash away, it will be like the California mudslides. It might not be now, but maybe 15 years from now," said Marchetti. A total of 328 units are planned for the Avenue of the Americas development. Town Planner Steve Kerlin and Planning Board Chairman David Foster said officials understood the project's work would leave a "buffer zone" between the cemetery and the Avenue of the Americas parcel, but yesterday they could not immediately say how much land was designated for the buffer. Foster said he understood the project would add a stone wall, bushes and a guardrail along the eastern tip of the cemetery. The plastic fencing and drop-off are only temporary, he said. "I know they've got a heck of a lot of equipment up there and they're working diligently," Foster said yesterday. The town's Cemetery Superintendent Doug Small and acting Town Manager Dave Thomas were both out of the office and unavailable for comment yesterday.

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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