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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Save your tears for your living children , if they are yet living in their sins , untouched by repentance .... " 22 Children who died had the surest guarantees of sinless afterlives , for their brief lives protected them from decay .
Save your tears for your living children , if they are yet living in their sins , untouched by repentance .... " 22 Children who died had the surest guarantees of sinless afterlives , for their brief lives protected them from decay .
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On a simple , literal , direct level the living speak of their dead as a blessing and tell how the grief and shock of their passing improved and ennobled those they left behind . On a more ethereal plane the dead also bless the living ...
On a simple , literal , direct level the living speak of their dead as a blessing and tell how the grief and shock of their passing improved and ennobled those they left behind . On a more ethereal plane the dead also bless the living ...
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In some cases the choice to decorate or not may in fact be dictated by the deceased person's stated wishes while living . One woman was charged by her mother , “ When I die you bring me flowers . " Within San Fernando Cemetery ...
In some cases the choice to decorate or not may in fact be dictated by the deceased person's stated wishes while living . One woman was charged by her mother , “ When I die you bring me flowers . " Within San Fernando Cemetery ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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