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Tag Archives: Norristown PA

Suggestivo

‘Suggestivo’ is the right word for this image of magnificent decay.

Posted bygsb03632July 12, 2020Posted incemeteries, Italian, RomanticismTags: Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown PALeave a comment on Suggestivo

Hartranft obelisk

An attractive setting to photograph, with a dismaying surprise.

Posted bygsb03632July 11, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, landscape architecture, photography, public artTags: bas relief, Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown PA, obelisk, portrait roundel, vandalismLeave a comment on Hartranft obelisk

Missteps

Loss and attendant grief are terrible things, and to combat them some survivors attempt to distract themselves by entering wholeheartedly into “a project” of commemoration.

Posted bygsb03632July 11, 2020July 12, 2020Posted inarchitecture, cemeteries, landscape architecture, Latin, McMansionTags: Doric order, Norristown PA, Riverside Cemetery, William Wetmore Story1 Comment on Missteps

Well played!

A very recent, very clever monument in Riverside Cemetery in Norristown.

Posted bygsb03632July 8, 2020July 8, 2020Posted inarchitecture, cemeteries, public artTags: Norristown PA, pun, Riverside Cemetery, salvageLeave a comment on Well played!

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