A notorious printing error of the 4-cent Columbian (1893) lives in the Smithsonian’s postal museum.
Author Archives: gsb03632
Also a client . . . .
Thoughts provoked by my parents’ cemetery marker.
Two poems in Rock Creek Cemetery
Two interesting poems in Rock Creek: one vernacular, one a trusty bit of Tennyson.
The tree is known by its fruit.
Lambert Tree hoped to be known by his fruit!
The Kates monument in Laurel Hill
The Kates monument in Laurel Hill gets us to the name of the quarry that contracted several works discussed here.
Slifer my God to thee
The most expensive monument in the cemetery supports the posturings of the Slifer family.
A bit of the old ultra-rustic
The Hunter cairn is a monument to unintended camp display.
Trompe l’oeil in Laurel Hill
A wondrous trompe l’oeil effect created by the landscape architect of the Conarroe plot in Laurel Hill.
The Darians, the Eloi, and the Golgafrinchans
Mission of the Darians is a far from typical specimen of the multi-generation ark ship genre.
Another outdoor portrait bust
The unexpected freestanding outdoor portrait bust of Eugene Liomin is a rarity worth a second look.
