Božiček Family Grave, Croatian Cemetery, 1950s

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Božiček Family Grave, Croatian Cemetery, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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The granite marker reads FRANJO i MARIJA BOŽIČEK, and in front of it the plot has been raked into a neat rectangle of bare gravel instead of grass, which was the custom in Central European Catholic cemeteries of the period: a lawn suggested neglect, a raked stone bed suggested a family that still came around. Somebody had clearly been out that morning with a rake and a sense of obligation, smoothing the gravel the way other people mowed a yard, because an unkempt grave in a village this size would have been noticed and discussed.

A jacket and a handbag hang on the neighboring monument, left there by whoever was doing the tending, since a marble headstone makes a perfectly good coat hook when you are on your knees pulling weeds and don't want your good coat in the dirt. Nobody in 1950s rural Croatia seems to have thought twice about using a stranger's memorial as furniture for the afternoon; the dead, presumably, were assumed not to mind the company.

Behind it all stands a thinning stand of older wooden crosses, cheaper and now leaning, next to the newer granite blocks that families upgraded to when they could afford it — a small, unintentional timeline of who in the parish had done well enough to trade in a cross for a stone.

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