In the South in the United States people have a special relationship with their dead. We visit the cemeteries often, we sit at a tomb and talk to our dead relatives and, on this occasion, we have a party.
As part of the Sesquecentennial of the town of Reserve, Louisiana, there was a cemetery tour in St. Peter's Cemetery. People were asked to place votive candles at their family tombs and stand by the tombs to give the history of the people buried there. At the end of the tour it was nightime and I was not too crazy about being in the cemetery in the dark.