Gravesite inspiration welcome

[Steve]

I generally feel a closer connection to history through places rather than gravesites. I still will visit particular gravesites if I'm in the area where one is located. I actually enjoy walking through cemeteries, it's that with famous people, at least, I feel a closer historical connection to them visiting their restored home, fort, building etc than visiting their gravesite. I hope that makes sense.

Since I live near Philadelphia, I'll leave a recommendation for Eva, Susan, Gene, or anybody else that may be planning a trip to the area. Christ Church Burial Ground where serveral signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried, including Benjamin Franklin. Franklin's grave can actually be seen from the street by a hole cut into the wall of the cemetery, replaced with an iron gate. Here's an interesting article telling the story of how that happened if anybody is interested:

https://hiddencityphila.org/2017/04/behi...ins-grave/

The openning in the wall has allowed people to toss pennies onto Franklin's grave which, after a century and a half since the hole was made in the wall, has caused damage to the marker of Franklin and his wife's graves.

And if you're going to visit Philadelphia as a grave-seeking tourist, I guess I should give you a word of warning as well. If you visit the Betsy Ross house, the grave marker is incorrect - Betsy and her third husband, John Claypoole are not buried there. In 1976, the city government, (which ran the site at the time and still owns the building collecting rent from the group which runs the site today) notoriously dug up two other bodies from Mt. Moriah Cemetery after it couldn't find the bodies of Betsy and her husband hoping it would help enhance the site's tourist (and tourist's money) appeal.