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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An emerging aesthetic based upon applied pragmatic ideals seems to have had a lot to do with it initially : as early as 1917 , one commentator , touting his vision of the ideal new cemetery as “ similar to that of a modern real estate ...
An emerging aesthetic based upon applied pragmatic ideals seems to have had a lot to do with it initially : as early as 1917 , one commentator , touting his vision of the ideal new cemetery as “ similar to that of a modern real estate ...
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Though it was popularized to a large extent in the 1960s by logger - songwriter Buzz Martin as the title song for his first album , 21 it seems to have enjoyed traditional status in the woods for some time prior to this , 22 embodying ...
Though it was popularized to a large extent in the 1960s by logger - songwriter Buzz Martin as the title song for his first album , 21 it seems to have enjoyed traditional status in the woods for some time prior to this , 22 embodying ...
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It seems probable that the evolution of the cemetery and its transitional processes in that region are not markedly different from such processes elsewhere , except perhaps in terms of chronology or highly individualized regional ...
It seems probable that the evolution of the cemetery and its transitional processes in that region are not markedly different from such processes elsewhere , except perhaps in terms of chronology or highly individualized regional ...
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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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