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Story for Doldrums Days
Posted By: Capt D
Date: Saturday, 2-9-13, at 6:13 p.m.
Grew up in inner city in the 50's. Mom and dad running tavern across the street from a cemetary. Our playground was the cemetary. Was allowed in the cemetary as the gravediggers (they did it by hand then, and brought me the nightcrawlers they unearthed each day) ate lunch in parents place. All w/ me were OK to be in there. Winter hockey, skiing and sledding, spring baseball, summer more baseball, diggin caves, catchin rabbits, fishin, collecting worms (for fishin...(makin this a legal post - not like veggies and sauces you guys post:):), fall football and collecting buckeyes for "buckeye wars" in neighborhood.
Bout 1/2 the time we went to cemetary, made burgers at the tavern and took them w/ Cokes and chips for lunch. Big deal to us at the time cause we really had nothing when it came to material things. Used to climb up onto big granite blocks that supported an abandoned overhead railroad tressle to eat. Good times.
Remember how much we loved to pick and eat mulberries. Dad ended that one day when he asked where the trees were. We answered "Well... around the graves". Then he asked where the roots were and what fed them. That was the "end" of eatin those mulberries.
We bravely checked mausoleum doors w/ regularity, never expectin them to be open. One day one was. Was there w/ younger sister. Went inside and found that graverobbers had pulled back the stone vault top slabs. There were no caskets. Jewelry from corpses was gone, but the decomposed bodies were there starin at us!!
Much as we loved that cemetary, which we knew like the back of our hands, come early evening, when the long shadows played across the headstones we were out of there!!
We found cave one day, dug deep into one of the hillsides. Could walk in. Was about 6 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep. Seemed cool to us so we dug one too. Never got it nearly as big as the other one.
Had we known then what came to light years later, we'd never have been in that area which was completely hidden from the winding cemetary roads. A legendary creature called "Orange Eyes" was living there, "in" the caves. (Its on the "net" - no joke.)
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