"THE CRYPT. The Meeting House was built over a section of the ancient burying ground which occupied part of the Green, without disturbing the graves. The oldest stone is dated 1687. Three pastors of the church rest here: Pierpont, Noyes and Whittlsey."
I'm guessing this card could be the late sixties. Or possibly the early to mid seventies.
Not used.
I just noticed the tape on it now when I was scanning it.
I'm scared to remove it because this is only semi-glossy. And when tape has been on that long, it's going to leave a hurting when it's removed usually.
I'm just freaked out by this one because it looks like some creepy conceptualist art piece.
It looks like some conceptualist has put a bunch of gravestones in a parking garage.
And the sight of ancient gravestones half-submerged in modern concrete just makes it even creepier.
It's as though they're saying, "Sorry. You weren't quite buried enough."
Parking garages already feel (and often look) mortuarial and they ofen give me a feeling of claustrophobia--a low roof usually.
So this is rather like putting more graves inside something that already feels like a grave.
So we go nesting the dead like those Ukrainian dolls.
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