It s surrounded by trees and if you don t know it s there you can quite easily drive past none the wiser.
It s a private cemetery and many of the 450 graves lie with cracked, weather-beaten headstones, shrouded in weeds and with illegible writing that provides little testimony to those who lay there.
In the heat of late summer, with hundreds of loud cicadas buzzing in the trees, I spoke to Adrienne Miller. She is part of the community here in Matakana and every month she comes up to the cemetery to clean and tidy the graves.
“Eliza Morgan is the very first one I did and the reason was it s right here by where the water and the little shelter is, she says.
Grave cleaning reveals stories of old in Matakana
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Local coffee drinks to perk you up, get you going
From bottled Kru Coffee to a Chunky Monkey latte, the region has options
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Kru Coffee has lattes and other drinks, made with Battenkill Creamery products, bottled and ready to go.Photos by Jessica KellyShow MoreShow Less
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One of life‘s simple pleasures is the coffee buzz. It gets the day started and the aroma alone can spark some energy. Whether you’re looking to check some chores off the list, run some overdue errands, have a million Zoom meetings, or need fuel for a road trip, there’s an abundance of coffee shops in the Capital Region pouring out unique lattes with funky and fun flavors.
loss of life at 250 people dead. senior administration officials went to mississippi and alabama for awe firsthand look at the destruction and to offer assurances of federal aid. tonight cnn s martin savidge is in smithville, mississippi. the town took a direct hit from an ef-5 tornado, the most powerful and destructive. reporter: these are busy days at the smithville cemetery. the tornado killed 15 people in this town of 900. and liza morgan knows them all. the living and the dead. like elvin and laverne patterson. the pattersons. their grandson and i went to school together. and now i coach their daughter in softball. they ll be greatly missed. they were a special, special couple. reporter: liza and her father own and care for the cemetery. it s the only business in town still in business. they ve been hard days for
wife who died together in their home right around in this area. liza and her father know them very well. for them, preparing those graves is not a job, it s an act of love. fred? all right, marty savage, thanks so much in smithville, missouri. i appreciate that. the road to recovery for all the tornado-ravaged states is likely to be a long one but one they re cleaning up. what do the kids do? coming up in ten minutes, we ll hear from a woman who actually travels to disaster areas specifically looking for kids to help out. and in entertainment news, singer mariah carey and nick cannon are now proud parents. carey gave birth to the couple s twins, a little girl and a little boy, yesterday in los angeles. the date was especially significant for the couple. it was also their third wedding
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