McHenry County Blog

There are two street signs today.

The first says, “Cemetery Ln.”

As you might guess, it leads to a cemetery. This one is in Churchill, Maryland, which is where my parents, brother-in-law and maternal relatives are buried.

On one of my father’s visits to my mother’s burial site, he noticed the “Dead End” sign and concluded that it was a bit too graphic. He even wrote a letter to the Annapolis and Baltimore newspapers with his complaint. At least one of them was published.

Discussing it with him while he was being treated for lung cancer in Washington, D.C., I joked that the sign could be “No Outlet” instead.

When we in Maryland earlier this month for a Skinner cousin reunion, I took these photographs.