Magnolia Garden Club Brunswick, Georgia: Oak Grove Cemetary Clean-up

Magnolia Garden Club Brunswick, Georgia: Oak Grove Cemetary Clean-up: "Join us in our efforts to help 'clean up and beautify' historic Oak Grove Cemetery on Saturday, October 16th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. M..."
I have to say that when I drive by the cemetery I am so pleased with the efforts made by the club. The cemetery has a long way to go before it is all done but what a difference has been made. I am proud to have been a part of it. I was glad to get a chance to go into the chapel too! What a sweet little place, so solemn and I can just imagine what a service was like there as family and friends came to put their loved ones to rest. It was interesting and sad to see so many people who lost their lives to yellow fever epidemics and also how many infants there are buried there.
I have always loved cemetery lore and icons. The little lambs carved out of marble on top of the children s headstones are common to the era to signify a baby or toddler. The use of rose buds carved on a headstone usually mean a life cut short and there are several of those too!
The Oak Grove cemetery is full of treasure on so many levels.

Being Single, Southern & Over 55

I have been determined since I found myself single again to find a way to look forward to my future without being afraid of what I might see. I have always been a person who looked at every day with eager anticipation. I am not going to change that now, just because I don't have a man in my life. I have girlfriends (my age) who are single and so many of them are constantly talking about needing a man in their lives. They are always looking for an opportunity to find a place where men may be found. Bars, (is there anything sadder than a single woman over 50 in a bar?) single's dances (where there are only single women to dance with) and I even have a friend who going to a shooter's place to take a class on shooting a gun - so she can meet men! Men with guns! I just shake my head and remember something my Aunt Nell (who raised me) always said - Nel learn to take care of yourself. You don't need a man to take care of you. She was was not down on men, she just belonged to that group of fine southern women who knew that a woman who was able to take of herself could take care anything that life would send her way. It is her strength I draw on more and more as I follow the thread......