An Ozymandias vibe emanates from this nineteenth-century shrine to a baby.
Life’s galling chain
A poem from William Leggett, the editor and abolitionist, provides verses for the Shivers monument.
Answers to the name ‘Lucky’
"Lost: Pet dog. One eye, one ear, three legs. Answers to the name 'Lucky.'" I could not but think of this old joke when I came across the monument of Cary Howard in Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, today.
Colbert monument
An Olde Schoole female figure illustrates 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Trips to the Beech
A numinous beech tree at the Patriot Resource Center at Marywood in Scranton.
Graftationism
Natural evolution or intelligent design? You decide!
The Sullivan pillar
Instead of a freestanding column or obelisk the Sullivans chose a Gothicized pillar with eternal flame grave markers.
Clean mirth
Clean mirth evidently characterized Dr. J. Stacey John.
Now I lay me down to sleep
A late Victorian marker features a generic baby in a blanket sleeper.
The Flanigan mausoleum
A fine mausoleum reviving the Gothic English country church in Philadelphia with some comparative examples.
