Pictures from personal file of Dr. Jerry Aschermann. The pictures are divided into different themes or sections of the country. Click on a thumbnail image to view a larger size of the image. If using a modem these pages may take a while to load. Because this is true, our ancestors have left a valuable social, political, economic, geographic and historical document behind.
Cemeteries offer a remarkably varied group of possibilities for student involvement.
Foreign language classes can use stone inscriptions as a starting point for translation and a study of the cultures of immigrant groups. Art students can use stones for making beautiful rubbings. Natural science students can investigate vegetation and wildlife habitat that are found in different cemeteries. Cemeteries can show evidence of great social upheavals such as war, great epidemics and other great natural disasters such as fires. The cemetery will offer mute but stirring testimony that was lived in a vastly different manner in generations gone by.