Sneak: Ooh, yes, White, that's a very good way to put it! There was a family crypt at the busy one where the stones had been undisturbed for so long, they were slowly getting subsumed by tree roots! That was really nice.
Mori: the difference was one graveyard was part of the whole witch trials tourist bomb, and the other was not. The quiet one post-dated the witch hunt, and thus wasn't fit into the tourist branding. (Salem goes BALLS-OUT for witches.) The busy one had the memorial for the victims, and also had graves of various people associated with them, so there were guided tours and everything. We aren't really into that aspect of graveyard visiting, so it was wasted on us. (We're there because we like looking at the names, epitaphs, art motifs, and evolution in materials and design over time. The only time we've gone hunting stones for specific PEOPLE was when we went a-hunting a couple old abolitionists' stones in Forest Hills.)
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Mori: the difference was one graveyard was part of the whole witch trials tourist bomb, and the other was not. The quiet one post-dated the witch hunt, and thus wasn't fit into the tourist branding. (Salem goes BALLS-OUT for witches.) The busy one had the memorial for the victims, and also had graves of various people associated with them, so there were guided tours and everything. We aren't really into that aspect of graveyard visiting, so it was wasted on us. (We're there because we like looking at the names, epitaphs, art motifs, and evolution in materials and design over time. The only time we've gone hunting stones for specific PEOPLE was when we went a-hunting a couple old abolitionists' stones in Forest Hills.)