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Tag Archives: Cave Hill Cemetery

Proof!

For some overriding reason, somebody put D.G. Parr’s last will and testament front-and-center on his family monument in Cave Hill.

Posted bygsb03632April 22, 2022Posted incemeteries, photographyTags: Cave Hill Cemetery, D. G. Parr, Louisville KY, testamentLeave a comment on Proof!

Far-off shores

What is meant by the unusual image of a ship off distant shores on Hiatt Hepburn’s 1864 monument in Cave Hill?

Posted bygsb03632February 22, 2022February 22, 2022Posted incemeteries, photographyTags: Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville KY, Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3, Nikon Z 7iiLeave a comment on Far-off shores

Dance with Me

The Zehnder mausoleum in Cave Hill is accompanied by bronze portraits envisioning a reunion in the après vie.

Posted bygsb03632February 10, 2022February 10, 2022Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, architecture, autumn, cemeteries, landscape architecture, photography, public art, World War IITags: Cave Hill Cemetery, funerary portraits, Louisville KY, Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3, Nikon Z 7ii2 Comments on Dance with Me

Pickelhaube!

A 4-year-old boy sculpted in a realistic Prussian military getup of Franco-Prussian War vintage on his tomb in KENTUCKY? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, people.

Posted bygsb03632November 17, 2021Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, photography, U.S. Civil War, UnionTags: Cave Hill Cemetery, Franco-Prussian War, Green-Wood Cemetery, Louisville KY, New York City, Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3, Nikon Z 7ii, Pickelhaube2 Comments on Pickelhaube!

Foell’s errand

The Desiderata appears in an interesting textual variant on the Foell monument.

Posted bygsb03632November 13, 2021November 15, 2021Posted incemeteries, photographyTags: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Cave Hill Cemetery, Desiderata, Leonard Nimoy, Louisville KY, Max Ehrmann, new age, Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3, Nikon Z 7ii, syncretism2 Comments on Foell’s errand

Baby on the half-?

An astonishing variant of an already improbable monument type.

Posted bygsb03632November 12, 2021Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, photographyTags: Baby in the Half Shell, baby on the half shell, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville KY, Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3, Nikon Z 7ii, Oak Hill Cemetery1 Comment on Baby on the half-?

What in tarnation?!

An astounding ‘project’ commemoration for Theodore Steffen in Cave Hill Cemetery.

Posted bygsb03632November 10, 2021November 12, 2021Posted inautumn, cemeteries, photography, poetry, public artTags: Cave Hill Cemetery, cockfight, Hellenistic art, Louisville KY, Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3, Nikon Z 7ii, P.R. Chevre, Sophie-Victoire Debry2 Comments on What in tarnation?!

Byron by way of Louisville

A Louisville mayor celebrated by a Zolnay bust and some Byronic verse.

Posted bygsb03632November 8, 2021November 8, 2021Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, autumn, cemeteries, photography, poetry, RomanticismTags: Cave Hill Cemetery, Charles D. Jacob, George Julian Zolnay, Louisville KY, Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3, Nikon Z 7iiLeave a comment on Byron by way of Louisville

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