An unknown soldier? What's up here?
All aboard drowned
William R. Wall went down with his comrades on the U.S.S. Shark, 24 October 1944.
“Red” Monaghan
"Red" Monaghan was sent out in style: of course! He was president of the cemetery association.
Sherwood monument
Grim nineteenth-century demographics mourned with grim saccharine verses.
Mind the gap
The Susquehanna is a tremendously interesting river: the photograph here obliquely suggests the reason why.
—Munyon
A patent medicine king with, shall we say, an interesting history, buried in West Laurel Hill.
St. Lucy’s Church
Bombings, antifascists, coal-mine collapses, and THE SCRANTONIAN SCULPTOR. Need ye more?
Trees!
In which a pair of tree-shaped monuments offer a moment to think about trees as commemorative elements.
Simply to thy cross I cling
The best version of this sculptural type I've yet seen.
O tempora! O mores!
Even gilded-age figures of grief have picked up bad habits recently!
