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It’s Miller time!

You have to buy the bottle before you can drink the beer!

Posted bygsb03632April 10, 2021April 10, 2021Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: Danville PA, IOOF Cemetery1 Comment on It’s Miller time!

Daniel Miles, victim of Gettysburg

Daniel Miles died of wounds received repulsing Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.

Posted bygsb03632April 3, 2021Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, U.S. Civil War, UnionTags: 69th Regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, Danville PA, Gettysburg, IOOF Cemetery, Pickett's Charge2 Comments on Daniel Miles, victim of Gettysburg

Not a square Root

A balustrade on a Greek-style mausoleum? Well, at least the window inside is great!

Posted bygsb03632April 2, 2021Posted inarchitecture, cemeteriesTags: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha NE, stained glass, Woodmen of the World1 Comment on Not a square Root

Fannie and Nellie Lafey

Fannie’s and Nellie’s beautiful slate markers are treasures of Danville, PA.’s IOOF Cemetery.

Posted bygsb03632April 1, 2021Posted incemeteries, vernacular monumentsTags: Danville PA, IOOF Cemetery, orthography, slateLeave a comment on Fannie and Nellie Lafey

Dolly Tillitt

Like Ocracoke, Nags Head also has some tiny family cemeteries out of the way on back roads.

Posted bygsb03632March 22, 2021March 22, 2021Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: Nags Head, tetrametersLeave a comment on Dolly Tillitt

The Dietz mausoleum

A Karnakial mausoleum with Orientalist overtones!

Posted bygsb03632March 9, 2021Posted inarchitecture, cemeteriesTags: Charles Dietz, Egyptian Revival, Egyptomania, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Islamophilia, Omaha NE, Robert Talbot KellyLeave a comment on The Dietz mausoleum

Edward William Ryan, M.D.

A Scrantonian conspicuously decorated in World War I.

Posted bygsb03632February 16, 2021March 6, 2021Posted incemeteries, ScrantonTags: Cathedral Cemetery, Scranton PA, World War ILeave a comment on Edward William Ryan, M.D.

The Treasury of the Deckers

In which is explored a model for a very common American mausoleum design.

Posted bygsb03632February 2, 2021March 31, 2021Posted inarchitecture, cemeteriesTags: Binghamton N.Y., Doric order, Egyptian Revival, Flower Hill Cemetery, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond VA, Rock Creek Cemetery, Treasury of the Athenians, Washington D.C.Leave a comment on The Treasury of the Deckers

Net profits

Come see a splendid Egyptian revival mausoleum in Edinburgh!

Posted bygsb03632January 18, 2021Posted inarchitecture, cemeteriesTags: Edinburgh UK, Egyptian Revival, false door, obelisk, The Grange Cemetery, World War I, World War IILeave a comment on Net profits

G. A. R. Place

Unusual stylized stone mortars decorate the monumental staircase of a GAR-reserved burial area in Flower Hill Cemetery in Binghamton, New York.

Posted bygsb03632January 18, 2021January 18, 2021Posted incemeteries, U.S. Civil War, UnionLeave a comment on G. A. R. Place

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