Grate Rutabaga Enterprises

Comb Graves

• The Tennessee Comb Grave Tradition
• Comb Graves in the 21st Century
• Locations of 520 Tennessee Comb Cemeteries Listed by County. If you happen to know of a Tennessee comb cemetery that is not on this list, I would very much appreciate your sending me this information at Ric Finch. Anyone wishing comb cemetery locations by USGS topographic quadrangle maps should refer to Appendix A-1 in the paper "The Tennessee Comb Grave Tradition".
• Here's a really cool interactive map created by Chuck Sutherland showing the distribution of comb cemeteries in Tennessee: Tennessee Comb Cemeteries Map. Zoom in to find individual cemeteries. Click on the cemetery symbol for information about that cemetery.
• Why Comb Graves Should Be Preserved
• For comb grave researchers: Tennessee State Library and Archives blog on comb graves and resource materials.
• A partial list of the Alabama Comb Cemeteries, i.e., all those known to me.
• A partial list of the Arkansas Comb Cemeteries, i.e., all those known to me.
• A partial list of the Kentucky Comb Cemeteries, i.e., all those known to me.
• A partial list of the Comb Graves in Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma,Texas and West Virginia, i.e., all those known to me.
• N.B: I have a lot of comb grave information to share and will be adding to this section of the Grate Rutabaga Enterprises website as time permits. If this subject interests you, check back in from time to time to see what else has been posted.
• Here is a You Tube video of Ric's presentation on covered graves in the Cumberlands region, made at the 2022 annual meeting of the Tennessee Folklore Society. Covered Graves and Other Graveyard Traditions of the Cumberlands.

Adventures in Honduras

• Good Old Days in Honduras, Part I - 1969
• Good Old Days in Honduras, Part II - 1970-71
• Good Old Days in Honduras, Part III - 1972-75
• Montañas de Colón, Honduras, Caving Expedition 1984
• Subterraneo del Río Atima 1987
• Montañas de Colón Redux 2001
• My one-shot career as a commercial cave consultant, 2002
• Return to Catracholandia, 2006
• Diary of a Hard Luck Trip, Honduras 2008
• Cueva Siete Quebradas and Pozo del Portillo, Honduras 2009
• Caving in Conglomerate, Honduras 2009

Some more speleological doings

• Lockwood Cave
• 2003 Caving in Guatemala
• 2007 Caving in Guatemala
• Tires-to-Spare Cave: Urban Karst Hydrology
• Cueva de los Cristales: Walking Among Giants
• The Unrepentant Spelunker: Ric's "Luminary Talk" at the 2019 NSS Convention
• The 1953 Exploration of Cave Hill Saltpetre Pit: What Really Happened

Some odds and ends

• Beautiful 1955 Studebaker Speedster...
• 33 Buick
• Carbide Mine Lamps
• Barranca de Cobre, Mexico
• Rutahsa Adventures' mirrored website
• Janie's super slide show 1943 - 2013 for Ric's 70th birthday
• The Peripatetic Egg of 1961
• The Tuckaway Turtle Tally

Paleontological Poetry

• Ode to the Trilobite
• Marella

Our educational webpages:

Guatemala

• Antigua Guatemala
• Traditional Highland Maya Costume
• Chichicastenango Market
• Volcán Pacaya over the years

Costa Rica

• Wildlife of Costa Rica

The Galápagos Islands

• Origins of the Galápagos Islands
• Wildlife of the Galápagos Islands

Peru and the Inka Empire

• Inka Architecture
• Hiking the Inka Trail
• The Last Inka Suspension Bridge
• The Fountains of Machu Picchu

All photos on this website and its subset of Rutahsa Adventures' webpages are copyrighted by Janie and Ric Finch, unless specifically credited to other photographers. Prior permission is required for the use of these images by other persons in electronic media or printed media. We do license the publication of our images. For information e-mail Ric Finch.