Green Mount Cemetery – Συγγράμματα

St. Lucy’s Church

Bombings, antifascists, coal-mine collapses, and THE SCRANTONIAN SCULPTOR. Need ye more?

There are some wonderful monuments that feature a symbolic empty chair.

A third close replica of a monument type I’m studying!

A photo essay on the stages of decay of funerary landscape architecture.

A fine early Art Deco monument offers a chance to consider its evolution from the Neoclassical style.

The Kates monument in Laurel Hill gets us to the name of the quarry that contracted several works discussed here.

Some Latin consoled the parents of the luckless John Thomas.

An unsung monument in Arlington gets a close look.

An astonishing constellation of Christian and classical ideas in a statue of Phidippides.

An informal presentation of some floral shots I’ve taken. No commentary.