BALTIMORE — Celebrating Easter involves — at least at the Christian holiday’s core — confronting death. Resurrection can only happen after a person has perished, after all. But hunting for candy-filled plastic eggs near a cemetery?
“It’s just odd,” said Kelly Rutherford, an Essex resident, of a Baltimore County cemetery’s plans to hold an Easter egg hunt in the vicinity of the beloved gone beyond.
At Holly Hill Memorial Gardens, north of Middle River, Rutherford has laid loved ones to rest, including, most recently, her late husband, Terry, who died of brain cancer in 2020. The thought of kids running around to retrieve eggs on the graveyard’s grounds leaves Rutherford “appalled,” she said.
