There are so many stories and so many important people buried here. Our hope is that we can do this every year and learn more about the people.

To tear down any (historical) house for a parking lot is not good. The whole point of a local register is to preserve our heritage.

It's just a small-town, down-home parade that we really encourage all the entries to just have fun with it.

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives?

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

Our estimate is about 2500 people were buried.

I know some people might want to be buried near her, but we're just private people and so was she. When will people stop taking advantage of her legacy?