Father of the Bride Letterbox LbNA #8404 (ARCHIVED)

**TAKEN DOWN 2008***


Head to Edgell Grove Cemetery from Vernon Street in Framingham, so that as you approach, the cemetery entrance is on your right. Bring a container for water, if you please.

Do not enter the cemetery. Pass by the entrance and follow the low cement wall on your right. Several hundred yards down the road, Maynard Street enters from your left, and there is a break in the wall to your right. Pull over and park on the roadside here.

Enter the cemetery through the break in the wall. Pick up a small rock and put it in your pocket for later. You will notice three stone buildings to your left. Head to the first of the three, formerly a chapel. Standing on the steps, turn so that the wall through which you’ve just entered is on your right, and a dirt road/path, aptly called Chapel, runs in front of you. Walk to your left on Chapel path and follow it for about 50 yards to where it will intersect with Western. At the intersecting signs
Western and Chapel, stop and fill your water container at the faucet.

With the water faucet on your right, you’ll begin walking down Western towards the entrance of the cemetery. Stop roughly 100’ from the faucet, where three fences made of telephone poles line up on your right. Standing between the second and third “fence,” you’ll leave the road and walk in among the gravestones, towards the tree line and the cement wall.

Nearing the tree line, you’ll notice a black gravestone with a Celtic cross on it and the name Maloney. Take the small stone out of your pocket, say a prayer or whisper a kind thought into the stone, and leave the stone on the headstone for Gene. If you could water the flowers, too, we’d surely appreciate it.

Stand at Gene’s brass serviceman’s footplate and face the tree line. Notice a large evergreen tree, which is nearly directly in front of you, behind and to the left of “Carpenter.” Here you will find your prize. Thanks for visiting Gene.

My dad Gene loved to walk in the woods, including this cemetery. He walked every day, to loosen bad neck and back muscles and soothe a busy mind. The walk he couldn’t
take, however, was with me on my wedding day. This is for him.