Epitaphs are carved out of stone. Sometimes the stonecutter made mistakes and had to put in a caret, carved of stone, and add the correction. We saw lots of mistakes.
Some of the graves had little rhymes carved on them like this:
Behold and see all that pass by, As you are now so once was I; As I am now So you must be, Prepare for death And follow me.
When we were at the grave yard, we rubbed the stones and we have the rubbings hung up in our classroom.
The proper way to do a rubbing is to :
Get a special kind of paper called rice paper. And get black, brown or gold wax.
Use masking tape, not scotch brand tape, to attach the rice paper to the grave.
Cover the sides of the stone, that are showing beyond the rice paper, with newspaper.
Rub a small area at a time by pressing firmly.
Do not rub a wobbly grave because if you press too hard the wabbly grave will fall over.
Anyways you should not push too hard.
Sarah rubbing Anna Munroe's grave.
Cindy and her mom.
Hannah.