RIP, Druid
A grave?
Drawing from my own childhood experiences, I believe this to be a shallow grave for a child’s small pet. I buried my hamsters in my parent’s backyard. Where I grew up, owning a home was easier than it is in Boston, especially in Cambridge. It’s one of America’s most expensive places to live.
OK, back to the grave … my guess is that the child’s family didn’t own property and settled for some open space next to a street sign along Concord St.
The pet’s name was “Druid.” The name evoked my thoughts on how the Celts of the past still have a rich presence in the Boston area — hello, the Boston Celtics. I researched “Celtic Druids” to better understand the connection between the Celts and the Druids.
Thomas O’ Donovan published an article online using “ezine” article. (I’m quoting him because he summed it up more clearly than the sophisticated online sources.) From O’ Donovan and co-Arthur, Frank Soul, “The Druids were an ancient order of Celtic priests in the societies of Western Europe, Britain and Ireland. The Celtic Druids served their communities by combining the duties of seer, priest, poet, philosopher, historian, scholar, teacher, doctor, astronomer and astrologer. The Celts had developed a highly sophisticated religious system, with three divisions of men who were held in exceptional honor; the lowest division were called the Ovates, the second division were called the Bards and then the Druids.”
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/1477679
The small pet had quite a name to live up to.