We walked a few steps up the path, and came to a smaller gravestone.
The other day, in soft sunshine, a wind rustled flowers and bobbled Mylar helium balloons around the small gravestone, upon which eight cans of Campbell's Soup sat.
At Trinity, Davey stopped to examine a diminutive stone animal — a mouse, perhaps, or a small bear — that crowned a gravestone.
He then took on a series of odd jobs, including driving a tractor and cleaning gravestones, before opening a small carpentry workshop in London.
As in life, there is a hierarchy in death that places the tombs of the rich and powerful near the entrance, with the smaller gravestones of the middle class further in marked with just a marble angel or a stone tablet, and then at the far end several honeycomb-like 21 by nine blocks of simply scrawled names that sit close to the sewage drains.
You can also make smaller gravestones by cutting round cookies in half.
Home, for Jean-Louis Kerouac, was Lowell, a small mill-town in Massachusetts where he was born and where his gravestone has sat, with the message "He honored life", since his death in … October, of course, 21 October 1969.
There is a small display in the school's lobby that includes a photograph of Bristow's gravestone, copies of the papers giving him his freedom and his will.
In 2007, after a "very successful" career as a social worker, Ilonka — who lives with her husband in Port Maitland, a small town outside of Yarmouth, in Nova Scotia — received, via e-mail, a photo of her great-grandfather's gravestone.
In a freshly dug cemetery in Tartiyah, a small Sunni village near Salma, most of the handwritten names on the forty-eight simple white slabs serving as gravestones belong to muhajiroun, or emigrants.
