Walking Dead

M. and I went to the Oakland Cemetery Halloween walking tour last night, and the lines were endless, which is great news for fundraising for Oakland, which has been in Atlanta since 1850 and is a beautiful, park-like garden cemetery (think Mt. Auburn in Cambridge, MA, if you've been there.)

For me, it's historic Atlanta.

So, in the chill, we toured and stopped/started among six (or was it seven?) stops, and watched an actor tell the story of the person they represented; a governor, a woman lost at sea off of Florida, the most beautiful girl in Atlanta, a judge from up on Screamer Mountain...

And Oakland is gorgeous, as always, lit by torches in the night.

And how does this connect with writing? Experience your world, do new things, and oh, yeah, this in particular is period research. That's all I'm sayin'. :)