Worlds and Archetypes: Photo Theme Park

Every Tuesday afternoon at Faire Graves Cemetery, the sound of a carnival can be heard across the field and out the gate. The spirits of the cemetery will set up their Fair for the living to enjoy. The different times the spirits had inhabited in life comes together to create a hodgepodge of attractions and characters to be found at the Fair.

Classic Fair games are set up, 3 or 4 of each game, all slightly modified throughout the years. Their patron calls visitors over, luring them with better prizes as the years go on, or collectables that you can’t get anywhere else in the earlier years. An array of foods from different eras and areas are spread out on large tables together. The dishes don’t mind being mixed into a different year, all knowing they are delicious in their own right.

Past the pie eating contests is an open lot where shiney new vintage cars gleam in the sun. Vehicles ranging from classic Ice cream trucks to vintage beetles are admired and bragged about. As the years have gone by the show has expanded, adding modern cars into the show for the older spirits to admire with the visitors.

Near by are the mausoleums where the decorating contests are held weekly. The families residing within each mausoleum will decorate the interior to match the top styles of their era. The winners 1 century in a row are the Hayward triplets. Three girls from the 70’s who were always at the top of their game during their time amongst the living, they bring their ideas to the whole Fair. They can usually be found “helping” a fellow spirit or a new visitor fix their look.

While the visiting adults take in the sites the kids can join in with the other spirit children on Ms Poppy’s class. Ms Poppy was a teacher at Harvard when she passed away in the 60’s, so now she uses the Fair as an opportunity to teach children about history. Taking them to different booths, she will usually lose half her group once she gets into an argument with a spirit from a different era about the facts of their era. She is always right of course.

The Fair will conclude with a fireworks display. While the spirits clean up the visitors will be lead out by the groundskeeper of the cemetery, encouraged to come back again Tuesday to experience the past again.