Hope Cemetery

Thursday      Today we visited the world famous Hope Cemetery in  Barre, Vt.  But first Inez says I must correct a mistake from yesterday's entry.  She says a cow path is a one rutter,  this path we drove down had two ruts.  It's like the city and the country mouse story.  One rut or two doesn't change the story I guess.   .In Barre, we walked  through one of the centerpieces of the town, Hope Cemetery, which is really a sculpture garden. The cemetery as well as the town itself, is a veritable outdoor gallery of sculptures, tucked in the heart of the granite-quarrying center of America.   Hope Cemetery, where sculptor Giuliano Cecchinelli shows off the flower carvings, is one of three graveyards managed by the city. Only memorials made of Barre Gray ( granite )  are permitted there. Other than that, the options for eternal remembrance are wide open. Hope  allows more unusual ones. Along with the usual crosses and cherubs, markers for the 85-acre (34-hectare) park's 10,500 graves include a couple in bed, an oversize soccer ball, an airplane, a race car, and a massive cube balanced mysteriously on its corner.