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how about a wallpaper? I think it would suit my desktop.

Graveyards in general tend to have very good soil for plant growth... but where I come from, large trees right on top of a grave is very bad luck. Descendents are supposed to visit family graves every year to trim excess vegetation.
I wonder how old these graves are on average? Maybe direct descendents have moved away and forgotten them?

Thank You, Wanderer! I did not realize there were 2 more sections to the D.I.H.Y.W. youtube videos. One thing is for sure, Bennett was picked clean of ornamentation of any value long ago. I have a gut feeling demolition will be a late summer 2015 event. Seems the best time when most of the youtube crowd will be busy with back to school/ college. That is kind of ironic with Bennett having been a college. We will see.

I would love to see more pictures if you have any. I stayed at this youth hospital in 94/95 and it brought back alot of memories. I read alot about the place but when I stayed there as a teenager it was not that bad. I don't have any horror stories. I hope they do not demolish the building and they decide to keep it and restore it.

I suspect that the coffin is actually 6ft under and that mock coffin of stone is actually a planting bed. the one next to it is of the same design. I may be wrong.

Looking at that photo, you can almost smell the rust.

was most likely a little treasure for a lost soul.

Kudzu IS off

Black and white photos?

Funny the symbols for strength and power seem to always look a little... phallic-like.

Well, if there's any justice in the world, the people that vandalize cemeteries will be haunted by the spirits they desecrated!

Sorry I don't make that information public, but getting inside these places usually requires some searching for an open window or door.

It could be a marker for a family plot, but I'm not sure as it was so overgrown!

then upstairs there were two classes with two other teachers whose names I have forgotten one was a short red headed woman the other a stocky man with a thick beard. Then of course there were the special classes taught by Mr. Eicholz, who dealt with the so called severely disturbed and Napoleon Bonaparte (yes he was an african american man, but that was truly his name, truth can be stranger than fiction sometimes) who did nature walks natural science type stuff like tapping trees for maple sap and explaining the process...

I remember most of the teachers' names, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Coveney, Mr. Granville, shop teachers were the thin guy Mr. Berubee (however you spell that) he taught wood work with the red headed artistic teacher Mr. Stankiwiez (stanky witz) then there was Mr. Higgins the print shop teacher, there was a math teacher who ran long distance and eventually marathons, but I have forgotten his name. The one I liked most was a guy who taught the science class who had dark sicilian looks, but was quite intellectual his name was Mr. Deltorio he was thin with jet black hair and dark eyes as I recall. I thought he might be gay.