Trinity Cemetery
A large cemetery ringed by a chain-link fence in moderate disrepair. The southern entrance has a building, rarely staffed, that reads: TRINITY LUTHERAN CEMETERY.
Trinity Cemetery is a sprawling cemetery, more than twenty-five acres, not far from the GM plant and areas more industrial. The east side is lined with an abandoned rail line, and with the local area largely abandoned the cemetery is perpetually quiet, sometimes eerily so. Even with city services, maintenance has been dear, and it shows. The grass is patchy and weedy, particularly on the empty north end, and the facility at the southern corner is staffed rarely by a rotation of volunteers from the Lutheran church.
The headstones and other monuments here are mostly in the modest range; perhaps because of the church's continual involvement, surprisingly few of them have been vandalized or tagged. Between roughly bi-weekly rotations to clean, rake, and mow, leaves from the plentiful trees pile up, dotted with local litter and detritus. The chain-link perimeter fence, however, has been knocked over or torn back from supports in a few places. Still, impressions are relative, and by area standards, the cemetery is pleasantly well-kept, and among the greener spaces available.
