OK, my dictionary says a crypt is an underground burial place in a church.
I think of it as the place where we Vermonters store those who die in
winter waiting for burial in spring.  These are frequently built into the
side of a hill.  Now they are usually called a "vault" but I'm sure I have
heard them called the crypt, maybe to make it sound more creepy.

Yes, we still hold our dead till spring although it is becoming more common
to bury them even in winter now that there is equipment capable of digging
in frozen ground.  Ruth



 6:18 PM -0500 1/19/04, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Ruth
>
>   My dear.... I forgot crypts mean other things in other parts of the country
>                     (see crypts and bloods)
>                     and tombstone makes pizza (see thin or thick crust)
>                       whats worst
>                           I hear they don't bury them till spring in Vt
>                        (or is that only in politics)
>Py
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