by Leslie Sholly | Nov 2, 2019 | Catholicism, death, Graveyards, Knoxville, photoblogging
Catholics are especially called to pray for the dead on All Souls Day. We are encouraged to visit a cemetery to do so if possible. So to commemorate this day, I am giving my readers a virtual visit to a graveyard. I was delivering a meal to a new mother two years...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 4, 2018 | books, Catholicism, death, family, Graveyards, Knoxville
Remember summer? It seems so long ago! Not the hot part–that lasted well into October here–but the not-being-in-school-and-having-daily-adventures part, which ended for us in early August. We’ve had adventures since then, if not so many; what I lack...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 15, 2018 | Graveyards, homeschooling, Knoxville, Parenting, Vacations
Y’all, it is HOT. And our access to a swimming pool is gone. It is hard to want to leave the air conditioning to have summer adventures, but we managed three days of fun this week. I couldn’t get it together till Wednesday, when we had to leave the house...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 28, 2017 | Graveyards, Knoxville
It was a beautiful autumn day almost exactly a year ago when I finally visited Bookwalter United Methodist Cemetery, which had been on my list for years. It is a large–over 4,000 graves–cemetery, and has been in continuous use from the 1880s to the...
by Leslie Sholly | Apr 11, 2017 | Graveyards, Knoxville, Uncategorized
Pleasant Forest Cemetery is a hard one to miss. Â It’s enormous, for one thing, and it’s on a well-traveled road. I’ve driven by it many times and it’s been on my list to visit for awhile. Â Occasionally my graveyard trips are serendipitous and...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 15, 2016 | Genealogy, Graveyards, Knoxville, Uncategorized
Wow, y’all. Â If you are interested in history you really need to visit Lebanon in the Forks Presbyterian Cemetery. Â Honestly, my visit left me a little awestruck. But let me back up. Â Emily and I went walking Saturday, as we are wont to do. Â We picked our...