In which is explored a model for a very common American mausoleum design.
Tag Archives: Washington D.C.
The decade of grief
By decade’s end, the cumulative grief killed her.
Thou knotty Celtic cross!
Knotical-Rustical-Uncical-Celtical wonder in Glenwood Cemetery, D.C.
Schäflein
A Moravian hymn graces the monument of little Luther Campbell in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Iambs flowing from the Fawcett
No Wooden poetry here but pure iambs flowing from the Fawcett: John Fawcett, that is.
Decalog
A tombstone with the full text of the Ten Commandments and maybe then some. No craziness there, nosiree!
Lyre, lyre, pants on fire
Some sizzlin’ iambs from 1878 on the Weide monument. And a lyre!
Funerary landscaping
A photo essay on the stages of decay of funerary landscape architecture.
Two poems in Rock Creek Cemetery
Two interesting poems in Rock Creek: one vernacular, one a trusty bit of Tennyson.
The tree is known by its fruit.
Lambert Tree hoped to be known by his fruit!
