A Visit with the Folks
Periodically I go back to a churchyard cemetery on the side of an Appata-J chian hill in northern Virginia to call on family elders. It slows the juice) || down something marvelous.
They are all situated right behind an imposing brick church with a tall squatt brick bell-tower best described as honest but not flossy. Some of the family' elders did construction repair work on that church and some of them, the real old timers, may even have helped build it, but I couldn't swear to that, because it's been there a long, long time.
The view, especially in early summer, is so pleasing that it's a pity they can't' enjoy it. Wild roses blooming on fieldstone fences, fields white with daisies, ,| that soft languorous air turning the mountains pastel blue out toward the West.
The tombstones are not much to look at. Tombstones never are in my book, ] but they do help in keeping track of the family and, unlike a family, they have the virtue of never chafing at you.
This is not to say they don't talk after a fashion. Every time I pass Uncle < Lewis's I can hear it say, "Come around to the barber shop, boy, and I'll cut that hair." Uncle Lewis was a barber. He left up here for a while and went to 'I the city, Baltimore. But he came back after the end. Almost all of them came back finally, those that left, but most stayed right here all along.
Well, not right here in the churchyard, but out there over the fields, two, three, four miles away. Grandmother was born just over that rolling field out there near the woods the year the Civil War ended, lived most of her life about three miles out the other way there near the mountain, and has been right here near this old shade tree for the past 50 years.
We weren't people who went very far. Uncle Harry, her second child, is right beside her. A carpenter. He lived 87 years in these parts without ever complaining about not seeing Paris. To get Uncle Harry to say anything,
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