Puzzlements and charms in Dunmore Cemetery.
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Proof!
For some overriding reason, somebody put D.G. Parr’s last will and testament front-and-center on his family monument in Cave Hill.
. . . this is a way of life!
Irony and parody in The Return of the Living Dead with an appearance by Clancy Brown’s Kurgan.
Far-off shores
What is meant by the unusual image of a ship off distant shores on Hiatt Hepburn’s 1864 monument in Cave Hill?
Praise for children
An early Latin inscription celebrates a freedwoman who lost six children but whose virtue was rewarded with manumission.
We all die, so have a drink while you can
Pop open a cold one and read a Roman tombstone with me.
Dance with Me
The Zehnder mausoleum in Cave Hill is accompanied by bronze portraits envisioning a reunion in the après vie.
Wymberley Jones DeRenne monument
An Egyptomaniacal monument of a bibliophile in Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery.
#Confederate
#Confederate: very up-to-date symbolism!
Shell game
A double shell monument offers an opportunity for a brief survey of infant funerary commemoration strategies.
Gracie Watson funerary portrait
One of the top-10 funerary portraits in the USA.
Midday in the garden of evil and good
Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, lends itself to moody, gothic images.
Pickelhaube!
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.
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.
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