Edward McGowan went to machine gun school just as WWI ended. He ended in early 1919 while still training. Spanish Flu?
Category Archives: cemeteries
The voyage into the afterlife
Imagery probably derived from Cole’s Voyage of Life decorates the White-bronze Miller monument in West Pittston, PA.
A Quixotic epitaph
A man who led a peripatetic life bids us adieu with a passage of Don Quixote.
The Ithacan
Come for the attractive memorial but stay to find a seemingly lost work by a little-known New York artist, Charles Michael Angelo Lang.
Exponent of truth
An EXPONENT OF TRUTH engages in a ‘project’ commemoration.
The glorious Schmid monument
A world-class weeping willow monument in Omaha, NE.
Latinists take note
Fetch your glasses and have a whack at this epitaph.
Myer Davidow mausoleum
A stunning Japanese maple highlights the landscape architecture of the Myer Davidow mausoleum.
Fallen verse
Some extry bold versificatin’ on the LaBarr monument.
My three sons
Three luckless sons of Captain Ezra May.
