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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John Stockbridge and His Tree The iconography of New England colonial gravestones is by now well understood and forms a powerful component in the study of the worldview of those who made and were buried beneath them .
John Stockbridge and His Tree The iconography of New England colonial gravestones is by now well understood and forms a powerful component in the study of the worldview of those who made and were buried beneath them .
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The Tree of Life , which occurs about as frequently as the Scottish Thistle , is often used in combination with another design ... carved swastika ( or clubbed fylfot , to use the heraldic term ) flanked by two miniature Trees of Life .
The Tree of Life , which occurs about as frequently as the Scottish Thistle , is often used in combination with another design ... carved swastika ( or clubbed fylfot , to use the heraldic term ) flanked by two miniature Trees of Life .
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He may be seen on his knees setting a choker , bucking fallen timber ( i.e. , cutting the tree into log lengths ) ... Fallers , those who actually cut down the trees , are amply represented , whether standing atop an old time ...
He may be seen on his knees setting a choker , bucking fallen timber ( i.e. , cutting the tree into log lengths ) ... Fallers , those who actually cut down the trees , are amply represented , whether standing atop an old time ...
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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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