Cemeteries GravemarkersRichard Meyer Utah State University Press, 1992 - 347 pages Cemeteries 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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Page 254
... popular in virtually every city in the United States . Gone in the designer's mind was the rigid grid plan of columns and rows discussed earlier in this essay ; in its stead arose a circuitous form of winding streets and cul - de - sacs ...
... popular in virtually every city in the United States . Gone in the designer's mind was the rigid grid plan of columns and rows discussed earlier in this essay ; in its stead arose a circuitous form of winding streets and cul - de - sacs ...
Page 278
... popular styles that people would have seen in marble or granite . They ranged from rather plain tablets and small lambs to obelisks with inverted torches and flaming urns or statues of classically draped Faith with her bible . It was ...
... popular styles that people would have seen in marble or granite . They ranged from rather plain tablets and small lambs to obelisks with inverted torches and flaming urns or statues of classically draped Faith with her bible . It was ...
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... popular poem , “ The Deserted Village . " 12 Such was the nostalgia shared by Caroline Orne , whose book - length poem , Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn ( 1844 ) , described how the " for- est deep " two hundred years before had been ...
... popular poem , “ The Deserted Village . " 12 Such was the nostalgia shared by Caroline Orne , whose book - length poem , Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn ( 1844 ) , described how the " for- est deep " two hundred years before had been ...
Contents
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest | 61 |
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