Showing posts with label gravestone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gravestone. Show all posts
Friday, February 4, 2011

2 morbid mysteries

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Fisherman and photographer Scott Owens came upon an empty casket a few weeks ago in the woods near Slidell, Lousiana. “ At first I thought...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Mysterious spheres

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Imagine the surprise of the kids at Eagle Point ( 1st image ) when they discovered a very large unexplained granite sphere ( 2nd image ) ou...
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Whipple Bartlett

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I just received my e-newsletter from the Association for Gravestone Studies and it included the story behind the mysterious marker above, ...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Lone wolf

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" Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes ," he is quoted as saying - but that didn't apply to the pursuit of th...
Friday, July 2, 2010

Retro gravestone

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American anthropologist and archaeologist James Deetz ( 2nd image ) died in 2000, age 70, but is just now getting the gravestone of his cho...
Monday, September 7, 2009

Rock of Ages granite quarry

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Quite a few years ago, I roped my Mom and my friend Cris into driving from Mom's bed & breakfast in Connecticut to Barre, Vermont, ...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Follow-ups

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Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin wearing one of his designer prostheses. I want to follow up on my posts, but the news items and comments are...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Cenotaph

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What do these 3 seemingly disparate images have in common? Cenotaphs. A cenotaph is a memorial - often in a cemetery - that does not mark a ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Tempest fugit

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The winged hourglass occasionally depicted on Colonial gravemarkers is the visual equivalent of the saying, "Tempest fugit [Time flies]...