Must it always be Greenwich?
According to this article, a Greenwich man, one Michael Guite, is trying to move a family cemetary on property he’s purchased in Springfield, Vermont so he can build a house. At lease one of the graves holds the remains of a veteran of the War of 1812 and, not surprisingly, the Vermonters aren’t pleased. I’m sure Mr. Guite is a nice man; I just wished he came from some other town.
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“Among other things, he doesn’t want the graves around his three young children. ‘I feel that it’s improper to have a reminder of the sadness of life so near where children are playing,’ he said in February.”
Oh, heaven forbid some Greenwich kids be reminded about sadness in life!