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02/03/2021
Dead Reckoning: Where Were El Paso’s Earliest Cemeteries? – El Paso County Historical Society April 18, 2016Dead Reckoning: Where Were El Paso’s Earliest Cemeteries?by EPCHS in Latest, News & Events | By Mark Cioc-Ortega Concordia Cemetery opened in 1884, Evergreen in 1893. The Smelter Cemetery was supposedly established in 1882, but was not used much before the 1890s. So, where did El Pas...
02/27/2016
Dead Reckoning: Where were El Paso’s earliest cemeteries? - Newspaper Tree | El Paso's Original... The Neff-Stiles Building on Santa Fe Street at the Corner with Mesa Street. Three skeletons in the area once known as Campo Santo were discovered in January 1910, while workers excavated the foundation for the E. E. Neff (later called the Neff-Stiles) warehouse. (Courtesy of the El Paso County Histo…
We had a great number of trick-or-treaters this year. A great success!
10/31/2013
Waiting for trick or treaters!
10/31/2013
Almost ready for tomorrow!
From the Irish come the carved Jack-o-lanterns, which were originally carved turnips. The legend surrounding the Jack-o-Lantern is this:
There once was an old drunken trickster named Jack, a man known so much for his miserly ways that he was known as "Stingy Jack," He loved making mischief on everyone -- even his own family, even the Devil himself! One day, he tricked Satan into climbing up an apple tree -- but then carved Crosses on the trunk so the Devil couldn't get back down. He bargained with the Evil One, saying he would remove the Crosses only if the Devil would promise not to take his soul to Hell; to this, the Devil agreed.
After Jack died, after many years filled with vice, he went up to the Pearly Gates -- but was told by St. Peter that he was too miserable a creature to see the Face of Almighty God. But when he went to the Gates of Hell, he was reminded that he couldn't enter there, either! So, he was doomed to spend his eternity roaming the earth. The only good thing that happened to him was that the Devil threw him an ember from the burning pits to light his way, an ember he carried inside a hollowed-out, carved turnip.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven
Will the Cemetery Materialize this Halloween? He He He
03/30/2012
He's real!
Cop admits he couldn't give Batman a ticket Video on msnbc.com: Jackie Bensen talks with the police officer who recently pulled over the super hero for not having proper tags on his license plates.
01/19/2012
I was here!
Western Hills Elementary's Haunted House The Goosebumps Haunted Hallway was this year's haunted house at Western Hills Elementary School. Music by Midnight Syndicate. My first attempt at editing vid...
Best Presidential Speech EVER!!! Period!!!
A great supporter of the Cemetery is recognized on National TV