Why couldn't I be this lucky?
Correspondent:: "orknies of south"
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:51:22 -0500
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45773-2005Jan28.html
Remains Found By Workers at Georgetown Home
By Debbi Wilgoren
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 29, 2005; Page A01
The masonry workers carefully removed part of the old
rowhouse's brick foundation and began excavating the
dirt on the other side. First they came across some
wooden planks. Then they found what looked like
human remains -- a jaw, most teeth still intact, several
joints, some ribs.
Georgia Ravitz, who has lived in the elegant Georgetown
home in the 3300 block of Q Street NW for seven
years, said she was surprised at Wednesday's gruesome
discovery. But only a little.
She knew that a human skull had been excavated in
her neighbor's yard nearly half a century earlier and
that the park across the street stood on the site of
one of the city's oldest and most prestigious burial grounds.
Her neighbor had found a tombstone discarded on
her roof when she bought her house in 1957. And a
woman, now 100, who was born a few doors
down recalls her father digging to enlarge their
basement and stumbling upon nine sets of skeletal remains.
"I would not be surprised at all if there's a lot more
bodies buried somewhere on this block," Ravitz said.
The remains also could have come from the Presbyterian
cemetery established before the American Revolution,
on land eventually bordered by the streets known
today as Q, R, 33rd and 34th. At its largest, the cemetery
held about 2,700 graves, including those of former
mayors of Georgetown and other prominent
citizens, according to old newspaper accounts.
Correspondent:: Baldin Pramer
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:29:54 -0700
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orknies of south wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45773-2005Jan28.html
> Remains Found By Workers at Georgetown Home
>
> By Debbi Wilgoren
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Saturday, January 29, 2005; Page A01
>
> The masonry workers carefully removed part of the old
> rowhouse's brick foundation and began excavating the
> dirt on the other side. First they came across some
> wooden planks. Then they found what looked like
> human remains -- a jaw, most teeth still intact, several
> joints, some ribs.
>
> Georgia Ravitz, who has lived in the elegant Georgetown
> home in the 3300 block of Q Street NW for seven
> years, said she was surprised at Wednesday's gruesome
> discovery. But only a little.
>
> She knew that a human skull had been excavated in
> her neighbor's yard nearly half a century earlier and
> that the park across the street stood on the site of
> one of the city's oldest and most prestigious burial grounds.
> Her neighbor had found a tombstone discarded on
> her roof when she bought her house in 1957. And a
> woman, now 100, who was born a few doors
> down recalls her father digging to enlarge their
> basement and stumbling upon nine sets of skeletal remains.
>
> "I would not be surprised at all if there's a lot more
> bodies buried somewhere on this block," Ravitz said.
> The remains also could have come from the Presbyterian
> cemetery established before the American Revolution,
> on land eventually bordered by the streets known
> today as Q, R, 33rd and 34th. At its largest, the cemetery
> held about 2,700 graves, including those of former
> mayors of Georgetown and other prominent
> citizens, according to old newspaper accounts.
As long as it isn't an old *Indian* burial ground, things should be OK.
If it is, though, boy are there going to be some special effects!
--
Sir Baldin Pramer, R.P.A.
Correspondent:: IMBJR
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:44:15 +0000
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:29:54 -0700, in reply to Baldin Pramer
:
>orknies of south wrote:
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45773-2005Jan28.html
>> Remains Found By Workers at Georgetown Home
>>
>> By Debbi Wilgoren
>> Washington Post Staff Writer
>> Saturday, January 29, 2005; Page A01
>>
>> The masonry workers carefully removed part of the old
>> rowhouse's brick foundation and began excavating the
>> dirt on the other side. First they came across some
>> wooden planks. Then they found what looked like
>> human remains -- a jaw, most teeth still intact, several
>> joints, some ribs.
>>
>> Georgia Ravitz, who has lived in the elegant Georgetown
>> home in the 3300 block of Q Street NW for seven
>> years, said she was surprised at Wednesday's gruesome
>> discovery. But only a little.
>>
>> She knew that a human skull had been excavated in
>> her neighbor's yard nearly half a century earlier and
>> that the park across the street stood on the site of
>> one of the city's oldest and most prestigious burial grounds.
>> Her neighbor had found a tombstone discarded on
>> her roof when she bought her house in 1957. And a
>> woman, now 100, who was born a few doors
>> down recalls her father digging to enlarge their
>> basement and stumbling upon nine sets of skeletal remains.
>>
>> "I would not be surprised at all if there's a lot more
>> bodies buried somewhere on this block," Ravitz said.
>> The remains also could have come from the Presbyterian
>> cemetery established before the American Revolution,
>> on land eventually bordered by the streets known
>> today as Q, R, 33rd and 34th. At its largest, the cemetery
>> held about 2,700 graves, including those of former
>> mayors of Georgetown and other prominent
>> citizens, according to old newspaper accounts.
>
>As long as it isn't an old *Indian* burial ground, things should be OK.
>If it is, though, boy are there going to be some special effects!
House-sucking is da bomb.
I'll go get my coat.
Correspondent:: brthrn@dangermedia.org
Date: 30 Jan 2005 16:06:51 -0800
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"My God, he was thinking irrelevantly, I have seen them before. I have
seen this all twenty years ago in a music hall."