John Kenzie Crocker died young and his parents chose the old memento mori of Death and the Maiden to commemorate him.
Category Archives: cemeteries
Topples
Two photographic studies of toppled monuments.
Flora ! Redux
A gallery of (mostly) floral decoration in U.S. Cemeteries, all B/W.
Preterition
Was this monument intended to be vaguely erotic?
Death’s resistless hand
A stone one notch above vernacular slices and dices a hymn to make a quick point.
Villard monument
To borrow the Guide Michelin’s phrase, “vaut le voyage.”
¡Y también una alfombra de piel de tigre!
You just never know what you’ll find.
Latrobe, step aside!
Republishing this: exciting new oak-leaf capital found!
Old Mortality
Sir Walter Scott in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania? Well, why not?
Still on guard
Outstanding and informative private monuments erected for two Union Civil War veterans.
