The buildings that no one visits these days and some current events

All church services are virtually given over the internet at this  stage of the pandemic.

All these shots are different views of the same church! This cemetery is right down hill from it.

On Craigmont Rd, in Black Mountain NC is a fairly new cemetery.

The older "Oak Grove Cemetery" exists a few blocks away, and has very few empty plots left.

The Old Oak Grove Cemetery is next to the Thomas Chapel, at the junction of Craigmont Rd. and N. Blue Ridge Rd. It was one of the original Black churches in Black Mountain.

 

The Valley Chapel is across the street from Thomas Chapel, on N. Blue Ridge Rd.

These quiet buildings will survive, and again attract those who helped create them.

Here's a disturbing YouTube video from Jan 6 inside the Capitol. It was posted by John Sullivan, and I have to conclude that he is JayDenX who took these 39:34 minutes of video. 

I share it because it shows how a mob works...30 minutes or more without any particular direction except shouting slogans, moving into any space that it can occupy, without any concession to any orderly conduct. Disorder was the continuing passion for these people. They remind me of lemmings...moving forward, fighting against everything in their path, but not knowing what they really wanted. 

The video is particularly disturbing because it includes the shooting of a mobster woman Ashli Babbitt at minute 35:09. And at 35:22, as she lay dying, another man in a police uniform, raised his automatic rifle towards the man who had shot through the window into the crowd, then lowered it. 

Incidentally the men who had been trying to break through the glass disappeared at that point. There were then 5 uniformed policemen, and one in a suit with an ID around his neck, trying to get people back from the woman on the floor. Incidentally, the shot though the bulletproof glass which had been damaged, took it out completely. The next action was two uniformed policemen trying to give first aid to the woman on the floor, while the man in a suit talked through the window to the man who had probably done the shooting. Several more policemen appeared up the stairs. One of the mobsters shouted "You shot a f*** girl!" then at minute 39:36 they yell, "She's dead!"

And finally enough Capitol Police come to back the crowd out of that hallway, including the man taking that video.

There are many more disturbing videos...because all those insurrectionists were taking them constantly. The various news media probably paid to purchase a lot of them!

Here are several other views of these harrowing events. 

ITV News Washington Correspondent Robert Moore 

 "Must-see new video shows Capitol riot was way worse than we thought." Chris Hayes on MSNBC on Jan 8, 2021

I know that at least 50 Capitol Police were injured. I'm really tired of hearing The Pentagon refused requests for help. Who the "heck" is the person who made that decision?  

Cemetery roaming

Yesterday my friend and I walked for miles over rugged terrain.  The hills and mole works of some of Black Mountain and Swannanoa, NC cemeteries.   And most of our cemeteries are on steep slopes!

We were looking for an old grave, nobody in particular, but just the oldest buried that we might run into.  We also took a few rubbings, but most of these stones weren't that great for art, and we mainly did it when we couldn't get enough shadows to read them.

We started (yes, you will share our trip chronologically) on Craigmont at the Old Oak Grove Cemetery.  There's a little chapel on the same hill, without any parking.

 Chapel, Craigmont Rd, Black Mountain, NC

 Across the street is another little white frame Baptist church., where we could park. 
I was interested in the ruined gate post of stone, or perhaps just a foundation for the sign.  I wonder how it looked back when people were coming to the funerals for all these folks buried here.

Thomas Chapel Free Will Baptist Church, Craigmont Rd, Black Mountain, NC

C.G.Lyttle b. 1882

Tiny Fortune

Jane Pertiller 1844-1911

John Pertiller, d 1916 age 78

S.J. Burnett, 1855-1911

One of the most outstanding (different?) markers were S. J. Burnett's.  His foot marker has a piece of chain on it. 

Foot and head markers, S. J. Burnett

Tiny Morehead Chambers, 1858-1947

I wasn't sure if Tiny was a male or female, but since this name includes 2 surnames, I guess that it's a woman with her married name.

Teresa trying to read name and date on a stone

We saw many names, though Teresa has lived and worked in this area for years, so she had had some familiarity with the local family names.  It looks by these markers as if the earlier burials were in 1911...but we weren't able to read many of the dates, either through weathering, or the grass covering the death dates.  So that's a provisional dating.

Tomorrow I'll post over on my blog, Living in Black Mountain.  We go to the newer Oak Grove Cemetery, also on the same road.