A Union soldier dead in the final push to take Petersburg and end the war: seven days before Lee surrendered.
Category Archives: cemeteries
The most wonderful mausoleum in the world
I experience elegiac emotions while falling into this picture as I view it—as the designer no doubt intended.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
A super-intriguing abandoned town in East-Central Pennsylvania.
Her Courageous Spirit Lives On
A masterpiece by Oronzio Maldarelli in Spring Forest Cemetery.
Ebenezer Marcy
Who writes out ‘hundred’ in the number 1790? The Ebenezer Marcy stonecutter, that’s who!
Jonathan Marcy
Elegant script in an out-of-the-way Pennsylvania cemetery.
Old Forge War Memorial
The War Memorial in Old Forge, PA, features wonderful art of a bygone era.
Salvage
I was looking at a total loss till I noticed where the sun was.
Der Tod und das Mädchen
John Kenzie Crocker died young and his parents chose the old memento mori of Death and the Maiden to commemorate him.
Topples
Two photographic studies of toppled monuments.
