A wonderful backlit gladiolus in Northumberland, PA.
Category Archives: photography
Francis Martin Drexel
Drexel has a handsome neoclassical pile in The Woodlands.
A cultivated personality and a blithe spirit
It’s either né and née or natus and nata. Do or do not do: there is no ‘try’.
Ladies and Gentlemen, contrary to expectations, Syngrammata brings you a Dull moment.
This is the Dullest mausoleum I’ve ever seen.
That’s ‘Paterson’, you fool
The cutter was sent back to fix an imprecision in the Barr monument.
Edwin Zenas Gerould
A new appendix to this post explains how and, I think, why the Gerould figure is odd.
Our culm
In which the author becomes pro-tem a coal picker.
Olde School Antifascism
A Woodlawn monument to Antonio Fierro offers an opportunity to dig into fascist-communist fighting among Italian Americans in the early 1930s.
A powerful artistic partnership
A lesser-known but still splendid collaboration by French and Bacon. Sounds like a delicious sandwich!
Something wrong here?
An unknown soldier? What’s up here?
