Charles Harris McPhail’s mourners drew on their classical education to commemorate him.
Category Archives: cemeteries
Memorial Day 2020
Given my propensity for finding a sermon under every stone, you’ll not be surprised to find a Confederate tomb in Richmond exemplifying Memorial Day 2020.
Iambs flowing from the Fawcett
No Wooden poetry here but pure iambs flowing from the Fawcett: John Fawcett, that is.
Decalog
A tombstone with the full text of the Ten Commandments and maybe then some. No craziness there, nosiree!
SKESHAKAH
An epic fail of typography and design in Arlington!
Barshaba
Another drab monument that pops with interest when we take a closer look!
Lyre, lyre, pants on fire
Some sizzlin’ iambs from 1878 on the Weide monument. And a lyre!
Farewell Stithy!
Stithy Roach! Quel nom!
Siegesgöttin
An angel writing in a book in Green-Wood: what’s up with that?
A rose by any other name
Come for the charming floral symbolism, stay for a child’s creepy poetic hallucination about the afterlife! It’s like the Oompa loompas make an appearance.
