The early Moravian community in Bethlehem, PA, felt strongly about the equality of all people in the community. (Mostly, anyway.) The tradition at the time was to have all people buried with only flat stones. The cemetery, known as God's Acre, was divided into sections (or choirs) men, women, children. There were no family plots. They were buried in order of their death. This picture shows two side-by-side graves. On the left is Bishop John Cammerhoff, one of the youngest Bishops ever elected. On the right is Tschoop, known as John, who was a Mohican Indian, the paradigm for The Last of the Mohicans. Equality, at least in death.
Date: June 15, 2006
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