Flowering Crabapple Trees are coming into full bloom here. Yesterday, the two Crabapple Trees at the portal of Naskeag Cemetery provided welcoming soft red and pink petals to this special place near the tip of our Naskeag Peninsula.
Although welcoming, the flower-bordered Cemetery entrance arch contains an irony that might make historians smile: it states “NASKEAG.” That word means “the end” to the Abenaki natives who lived here before strangers arrived.
Nonetheless, historic Naskeag Cemetery, the smaller of Brooklin’s two cemeteries, is a pleasant, quiet place to visit. There are veterans from many different wars buried here, including William Reed, a Captain who served in the Revolutionary War. He died and was buried here in 1790, three years after the Constitution of the United States was signed.
(Brooklin, Maine)