We've spent the last few posts describing the famous--and the infamous--body snatching incidents of our local, regional, and national past. What better way to follow up all that grave-robbing that with a Halloween post about our favorite Cleveland "graveyard": The Lakeview Cemetery.
But what is a graveyard? And is it the same thing as a cemetery? The words are often used interchangeably, but there are historical reasons for the shift in terminology. Traditionally, the green space or yard area surrounding a church housed the graves of its parishioners, thus a grave-yard. But by the late 18th century, many of these...
