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Hole Down Dance
Due to popular inquiry - In late January of 2009 a woman was
poking around some graves a few yards behind Paul Revere’s tomb
when she “discovered” – up to her hips – a long-covered entry to
what is now believed to be the tomb of Jonathan Armitage, a former
town selectman in the early 1700’s (Boston was granted a city
charter in 1822).
Apparently in wandering off the beaten
path she had stepped directly onto a large slab of slate placed
flush in the ground to cover the tomb’s entry when the slab gave
way, courteously breaking in two. The woman was not injured but
the burial ground was briefly closed due to repairs.
The old, broken slab of
stone has since been replaced with a new, unbroken one and is
scheduled to break, due to a wandering tourist, in the year 2287
(“Dear Parks Dept: just kidding!”)
BTW, the replacement
slab was covered with dirt and is now hidden again under a fresh
patch of grass so there is no trace of the “Hole Down Dance”.
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