A handsome monument betrayed by dicey versification and bad typesetting.
Tag Archives: Prospect Hill Cemetery
Lyre, lyre, pants on fire
Some sizzlin’ iambs from 1878 on the Weide monument. And a lyre!
Flora!
An informal presentation of some floral shots I’ve taken. No commentary.
Ware ye the steamers!
While not jolly reading, it’s nevertheless interesting—and fairly rare—to hear on a monument of an unusual form of death. In Prospect Hill Cemetery (in D.C.), there is a tombstone of Marion Hays Colerider who was “shot and killed” at the age of 17 on 7 December 1900 (figure 1). Figure 1. Marion Hays Colerider monument. …
Vernacular monuments II
Pietro Cordani monument, Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Photo: author QUI RIPOSAPIETROCORDANIN[ato]. 1909 M[orto]. 1911 Here liesPietroCordaniB[orn] 1909 D[ied] 1911 Once again we find a cast slab of concrete with visible aggregate. I see a crude cross above the inserted inscription, and it seems to me that the inscription is on a ticket that was poured …
