Our View: Historic places are chances to share a shared history

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Our View: Historic places are chances to share a shared history

It seems self-evident today, but the most interesting aspect of the 181-year-old Friendship Cemetery is not the headstones and grave markers but what lies beneath them. Granted, there are some graves whose unique design make them noteworthy, but most of the 22,000-plus burial sites at the historic cemetery are indistinguishable from one another. The same can be said of historic Sandfield Cemetery. The real attraction, which makes each grave site…