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The Muses

In Our Time

CHAPTER

Graveyard's a Wonderful Place

Peter Ross is the author of a really good book called The Tomb with a View, in which he can cover some of the stories behind the tombstones. I wanted to meet him after reading the book, but because we've got this Halloween program anywhere, I thought this is perfect. And we met up at a cemetery in Sterling, which strangely featured very strongly in his childhood. So although there are particular stories and stones associated with this graveyard that I find absolutely fascinating, for me what's amazing about it is just the overall effect of the place. This is the old part of the old cemetery at Sterling, and it's set up in the traditional way. All these stones are facing east so

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