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"Grave Tales" Halloween Cemetery Crawl

Written by DeadGirl
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
The W.S. Hancock Society presents: Saturday, October 21st. GRAVE TALES Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, PA Tickets are $6.00 for adults and $4.00 for seniors or students. Tours at noon and 5:30 p.m. For more information or directions call 610-630-0912. If it is pouring rain, this event will not be held. The W.S. Hancock Society is pleased to announce our annual Halloween walking tour at Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown. Founded in 1847, Montgomery was the number one choice for the final resting place of Norristown's founding families along with five renown Civil War generals and a slew of citizen soldiers from the War Between The States. Long neglected, this amazing Victorian burial ground was rescued and is being restored by The Historical Society of Montgomery County along The W. S. Hancock Society. This unearthly journey into the past will begin at noon with a tour for those who are more interested in the history of the cemetery than in the spectral images they might catch if they attended the evening tour at 5:30. We bid you to wear comfortable shoes, warm clothing and bring a flashlight, oh, and a friend to hold on to. Learn about our eerie history, lurid legends and frightful funerary. For more info see http://www.wshancocksociety.org Owned and maintained by HSMC

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Taphophilia?

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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Have you decided on eternal repose?

	earthen burial
	entombment
	cremation
	donation to science
	cyrogenically frozen
	you mean I'm still alive?

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“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.”

Robert Bolt