I've been so busy watchings Cubs baseball that I somehow managed to forget that while the end of August brings an increase in traffic as students flood back into town, it also brings college football! The college football season is so short as compared to the baseball season; I don't want to miss watching any games my team plays. The Cubs play like a hundred games so if you miss one, more likely than not, there will be another game the next day. Picture on the left: My parents and I share an unusual interest in old/historic cemeteries (are we secretly the Addams family? maybe.) They are visiting me for the long weekend, and in between football games we checked out this small cemetery established in the early 1800s. It was interesting, even if most of the headstones were too corroded by time and mold to be legible.
One of my many backup careers (man that topic deserves a post of its own) is a small-town traveling historian. I would travel from town to town, collating data from all available sources to get a feel for who lived where/for how long/etc when the town was first founded. Obviously I would have to marry rich in order for this dream to come true as who in the right mind would pay a physicist to do this? (PS if you're a rich person who wants to give away money, hit me up. jk. but fo real though.)
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That about sums it up for me! What about you? How was your week? Be sure to leave links to your Sunday Post in the comments below!
Oh I would love to travel and collect historical accounts and info. I have a bachelor's degree in History and you are right, no one can make a living doing that. Such a bummer because #dreamjob. So, alas, I got a masters degree in Education and now teach special ed to pay the bills. Someday though... :)
ReplyDeleteThat's so cool your degree is in History! Yeah, wouldn't that be such an amazing job?? Maybe one day one of us will win the lottery and then wouldn't have to worry about things like bills. ;)
DeleteI love old cemeteries too. There's a word for us, taphophile's.
ReplyDeleteTaphophile: An individual who has a passion for and enjoyment of cemeteries, epitaphs, gravestone rubbing, photography, art, and history of cemeteries. 😉
Haha that's interesting! With the label I feel more official in my odd love ;)
DeleteThere was an old cemetery in our old neighborhood on the northeast side of Columbia! It was an overgrown vacant lot that sat up a bit higher than the street. We never could find out who owned it. In the fall, you could see a few headstones through the trees. They were old headstones; we always assumed it was a family cemetery for the people that originally owned the land.
ReplyDeleteOo that's really interesting! I bet the headstones are too corroded to read...but it might be fun to check it out ;)
DeleteThat actually would be a pretty cool career, as a history buff I can relate to wanting to explore different towns and seeing who lived there and what events were key. There's a lot of interesting history behind some towns...
ReplyDeleteAnd yay for football season! Have a super week.
Wouldn't it be fun??
DeleteThanks, you too! :)
I love all things history, including museums, towns, buildings... probably because my mom was a history teacher :)
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