Mahon Cemetery
The Mahon Cemetery is Great Village's historic cemetery which is still in use today, Buried in it are many early settlers and their descendants including Elizabeth Bishop's grandparents and other relatives as well as many of the villagers who were portrayed in her poetry.
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Famous quotes containing the words mahon and/or cemetery:
“Elsewhere they are burning
Witches and heretics
In the boiling squares,”
—Derek Mahon (b. 1941)
“I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)