With the snow receding, interesting markers like this are beginning to surface. I spotted this one northwest of Mandan at the diminutive Yucca Cemetery along Highway 25. There are a couple of these staring skyward in silent anonymity.

This is part of a rather creepy looking Masonic-themed marker at the abandoned Greenwood Cemetery near my old stompin’ grounds south of Mandan. When I was a kid there were some even weirder markers that seem to have disappeared over time. Then there was the discovery of over forty unmarked graves in that area a couple of years ago, a fact which was kept quiet by local media to discourage grave robbers until things could be moved.

Did you know there are a couple of very old grave markers, probably among the area’s oldest, right along Sibley Drive in south Bismarck?