Cemeteries GravemarkersCemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large. |
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The image of the ship symbolized a newfound land and a newly made country . On the front of the stone two Doves of Promise face one another , the olive twig sticking out from the beak of one dove and almost touching the twig of the ...
The image of the ship symbolized a newfound land and a newly made country . On the front of the stone two Doves of Promise face one another , the olive twig sticking out from the beak of one dove and almost touching the twig of the ...
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David Sopher has referred to the cemetery as a formal positive expression of religion on the land . ? That appraisal seems a valid one not only for 1 cemeteries where religious affiliation is clear but also for those of a nonsectarian ...
David Sopher has referred to the cemetery as a formal positive expression of religion on the land . ? That appraisal seems a valid one not only for 1 cemeteries where religious affiliation is clear but also for those of a nonsectarian ...
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In many cases the farm is now abandoned , the land turned over to strip mining or to some other endeavor in the sequence of occupancy , and the remaining cemetery , in overgrown condition , stands as mute evidence of what used to be .
In many cases the farm is now abandoned , the land turned over to strip mining or to some other endeavor in the sequence of occupancy , and the remaining cemetery , in overgrown condition , stands as mute evidence of what used to be .
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Pealkiri | Cemeteries Gravemarkers |
| Editor | Richard Meyer |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Utah State University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 mär. 2005 |
| ISBN | 0874211603, 9780874211603 |
| Length | 347 pages |
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