cemeteries – Συγγράμματα

A lot on his plate

Scientist and prelate: a Dr. Zaius in nineteenth-century America.

A bit of nineteenth-century doggerel on a stone in Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, VA.

A happy ending for this young widow who had evidently taken comfort from her husband’s rod and staff.

A photo essay on the stages of decay of funerary landscape architecture.

I found another military monument with a ceramic cameo photograph just today!

A fine early Art Deco monument offers a chance to consider its evolution from the Neoclassical style.

An astounding plot in Durham’s Maplewood Cemetery with three monumental axes.

A fun memento mori in Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, N.C.

Thoughts provoked by my parents’ cemetery marker.

Two interesting poems in Rock Creek: one vernacular, one a trusty bit of Tennyson.