Mr. Alexander Alexander (or his commemorators) placed a phrase of special meaning to him on his monument in Hollywood Cemetery.
Category Archives: cemeteries
Woodmen!
Eight Woodmen monuments from the Albemarle region of North Carolina.
Spears, logs, vines, and tassles: cast-iron precinct rails in Elizabeth City
The Episcopal Cemetery in Elizabeth City, N.C., offers several arresting examples of cast iron precinct rails.
Wief!
An astounding eternal typo on a stone that simultaneously trumpets the company that made it.
From cradle to . . . cradle
Emma Hinton’s parents gave her a grave in which to plant flowers. Yet they also adapted this common type specifically to the tender age of her death.
John Christopher Thomas
Some Latin consoled the parents of the luckless John Thomas.
The Liscum monument
An unsung monument in Arlington gets a close look.
The Baker obelisk
A stanza by the romantic poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld graces the monument of the extended Baker-Jones family.
The Bolte-Willms folly
A finicky, complicated beaux-arts confection is the focus of a close analysis. I deploy every food metaphor I could in the process.
Phidippides and the victory motive.
An astonishing constellation of Christian and classical ideas in a statue of Phidippides.
