Brian Ragle (@Ragle@pixelfed.social)
Nestled in the hills of Middle Tennessee, this small cemetery holds a haunting kind of beauty. The weathered “tent graves” rise from the earth like stone echoes of the people they protect—simple slabs shaped into gabled roofs, meant to shelter memory from rain and time alike. Their surfaces are pitted and scarred, worn by a century of wind, lichen, and indifference. Each one is a story we’ve mostly forgotten: farmers, children, families who lived and died before the interstate roared past their quiet valley.
It’s a place that blurs the line between reverence and ruin. The artistry is primitive yet purposeful—folk architecture for the afterlife. Standing among them, you feel the weight of history pressing through the soil, whispering in a language that’s half prayer, half erosion.
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