One thing learned through obsession about the funeral home and delayed burial is its proximity to a NOAA/USGS river gauge from the Office of Water Prediction with graphs, images, FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layers, and historical data including the July 16, 1916 crest at 23.10. Also launched two years ago for this location I found a separate collaborative project website with live E.coli Estimator data for primary and secondary recreation.
The funeral home is located next to an outdoor sporting store just south of a river bar which is just south of a chocolate factory. When preparing the Hendersonville home for sale, on their kitchen bulletin board I found and saved a bold type quote (without source) so unlike the professional commuter parents of memory shaped by I-270 corridor north of D.C. with their crisp tailoring and formal letters to family that some prankster must have planted it there. Then again, how fitting for a father whose original academic profession was Therapeutic Recreation.
“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand and wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ’WOO HOO what a ride!’”
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