A 4-year-old boy sculpted in a realistic Prussian military getup of Franco-Prussian War vintage on his tomb in KENTUCKY? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, people.
Category Archives: cemeteries
Foell’s errand
The Desiderata appears in an interesting textual variant on the Foell monument.
Baby on the half-?
An astonishing variant of an already improbable monument type.
What in tarnation?!
An astounding ‘project’ commemoration for Theodore Steffen in Cave Hill Cemetery.
Byron by way of Louisville
A Louisville mayor celebrated by a Zolnay bust and some Byronic verse.
First boy to die
There was a remarkable desire to commemorate the first death of a local soldier or sailor after World War I.
Two splendid Italian monuments
Some purple (Italian) prose on these two monuments!
A world in a stump of wood
At high magnification the forms of lichens on a tree stump I discovered are fantastic and beautiful.
Lieutenant Lyman R. Nicholson
A ball to the shoulder was the beginning of the end for 1st Lieut. Lyman Nicholson at Gettysburg.
Hawkins’ Zouaves
Julius Langbein’s mausoleum makes aggressive claims on his behalf. See a new appendix with additional evidence for social competition among veterans!
Francis Martin Drexel
Drexel has a handsome neoclassical pile in The Woodlands.
A cultivated personality and a blithe spirit
It’s either né and née or natus and nata. Do or do not do: there is no ‘try’.
Ladies and Gentlemen, contrary to expectations, Syngrammata brings you a Dull moment.
This is the Dullest mausoleum I’ve ever seen.
That’s ‘Paterson’, you fool
The cutter was sent back to fix an imprecision in the Barr monument.
Edwin Zenas Gerould
A new appendix to this post explains how and, I think, why the Gerould figure is odd.
Olde School Antifascism
A Woodlawn monument to Antonio Fierro offers an opportunity to dig into fascist-communist fighting among Italian Americans in the early 1930s.
A powerful artistic partnership
A lesser-known but still splendid collaboration by French and Bacon. Sounds like a delicious sandwich!
“Red” Monaghan
“Red” Monaghan was sent out in style: of course! He was president of the cemetery association.
Sherwood monument
Grim nineteenth-century demographics mourned with grim saccharine verses.
—Munyon
A patent medicine king with, shall we say, an interesting history, buried in West Laurel Hill.
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