Showing posts with label grave markers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grave markers. Show all posts
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Wooden Grave Markers
Ever wonder why there are so many empty spaces in old cemeteries?
Michael Emery, who has spent two decades documenting historic cemeteries throughout southeastern and central Pennsylvania, has concluded that these seemingly empty spaces were once occupied by temporary wooden markers, most of which have rotted away long ago. While some of these were replaced by formal tombstones or markers of modest fieldstones, others were never replaced at all, leaving empty gaps among the oldest memorials in historic graveyards.
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Monday, January 10, 2022
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Sometimes Death Is Better
The person you put up there ain't the person that comes back. It may look like that person, but it ain't that person. 'Cause... whatever lives in the ground beyond the Pet Sematary ain't human at all.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Monday, November 28, 2016
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Romania
It'd be neat to see a lawn loaded with grave markers shaped like these. And a ton of votives and tealights and pillar candles.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Rusted Iron
A lawn covered with these crosses, or if they were set back against a wall like in this painting, would be mighty cool on Halloween night. I managed to find a rusted cross two years ago at a yard sale and I loved how it photographed.
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