Welcome to Maple Grove Cemetery
Shelby Township, Michigan
Maple Grove Cemetery was established in 2008.
I've lived in this little place since December 2002 with my husband (aka the Spouse), our 28 yo daughter (aka the Spawn), the Grandson (born January 2020) and the Granddaughter (born October 2021). Oh, can't forget the cat, Daisy.
It obviously took me a while to recognize the cemetery potential of our front yard.
Hi, I'm Chuck!
Chuck is my mascot. He's sort of like Flat Stanley - I take him places and take pics for his Instagram.
He's very well-travelled and is always expected to attend family functions.
I really enjoy Halloween. Ours is currently the only house on our street and one of very few in the neighborhood to go through any great lengths to decorate. The only issue is we don't have sidewalks or streetlights (I guess that's not really a bad thing, tho!)
I don't do gore and horror. My cemetery has bits of humor and is slowly being taken over by skeletons. But ya know what? It makes me happy. I usually start setting up the cemetery towards the end of September and then on November 1 - POOF. It's gone. That's part of the magic of Halloween.
Spoiler - the Spouse & I both take a day or two off work and work our butts off to get it all taken down and into the back yard to be put away in the following days.
In the off-season.....a quiet unassuming abode.....
aka "the Love Shaque"
because that's our last name!
Halloween 2020
How I came up with "Maple Grove"... besides the obvious - two huge maple trees can be seen in each of the above pics. When I was a kid, we spent most summers & weekends up north (Michiganders, IYKYK) In our case, it was at "The Farm" which is what we called the 120 acres my parents used to own in the center of the state. There was a one-room schoolhouse on the corner of our dirt road called Maple Grove, so all the old timers used to call our place that, too.
In the non-Halloween season (is there such a thing??) I enjoy exploring cemeteries and documenting some of what I find here. I occasionally do some research into the cemeteries I visit before I go, but I prefer to just see what I see! I'm a member of Find A Grave and my goal is to visit all of the real Maple Grove Cemeteries in Michigan.
You can find me on....
Instagram @MapleGroveCem
the app formerly known as Twitter @MapleGroveCem
Bluesky @maplegrovecem.bsky.social
HalloweenForum and HauntForum as lisa48317
Chuck's Instagram @chuck.d.bones
