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Friday, April 27, 2012

Gone to graveyards, everyone

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Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt? ( Where are those who were before us?) Mikhajl Aleksandrovič Šolokhov (Михаил Александрович Шолохов) in the...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

neo-Gothic Angel

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Angel imagery is common in cemeteries of the gilded age (late XIXth century). The most genre perfect, and impressive one in Cleveland m...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Artificer

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Veterans are entitled to a government issued grave marker. Veterans also end up indigent to a greater degree than those whom did not serve. ...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Sacred Heart of Jesus

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While the other representations of Jesus are familiar in the Orthodox, and Byzantine world, and in the Protestant, this one is quite Roman C...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Erie Street Squirrel

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Red squirrel in a saucer magnolia tree Erie Street (East Ninth) Cemetery Cleveland, O., is a green space between asphalt, brick, and cement....
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Cross and crown: religious or masonic?

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Is this cross and crown, religious or masonic? Catholic burial at Cleveland Calvary. Now, the anchor is another symbol of faith. In this adm...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

More Czechs · Více Čechů

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Here is a family buried side by side, progressively in death, left to right. The parents (2nd, 3rd stones), assuredly, were born in the old ...
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