Friday, October 30, 2009

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My Slate URL is called, "I Spend My Free Time With Dead People," by Adrian Chen.This article is about people, called gravers, who visit cemeteries to find graves of people they don't know and take pictures of their headstones to put on a website (Find a Grave). On the website, you can search for famous people's grave locations, and also search for specific locations and names. The website started small in 1991, only featuring celebrity graves, but is growing more and more everyday (they hope to one day have everyone who has died available for searching). There are many forums on the website, and people are really serious about being a true graver. Some gravers have taken thousands of pictures of graves and added them to the website. I think this sounds strange, but, to each his own!
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  1. AnonymousOctober 31, 2009 at 1:24 PM

    Wow, that's really weird but interesting! Thanks for sharing this with everyone. :)

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  2. dotsmomNovember 1, 2009 at 8:48 AM

    My former mother-in-law and I used to do grave rubbings. It's a weird and intereting hobby!

    When she died, her oldest son gave me the grave rubbing kit!

    K. Smith
    Eng. 226

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