Category Archives: Symbolism

Uncomfortable Coexistence

Posted on October 6, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

Lawrence McMahon 1845 – 1941 Jennie McMahon 1847 – 1907 The pyramid-shaped tomb of Lawrence McMahon, a retired pharmacy chain store businessman, and his wife, Jennie, in the Calvary Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was designed by Herman Buemming.  McMahon commissioned … Continue reading →

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Everlasting Life

Posted on August 15, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

Ribeth Conson Appleby 1917 — 2000 James Scott Appleby 1921 — 1974 Annie De Prairie Appleby 1885 – 1952 The Appleby Family Monument features a bronze sculpture standing in front of a stone arched alcove. The diminutive woman is leaning … Continue reading →

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Skull and Crossbones

Posted on August 12, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

The zinc KEESE Family Monument in the Rock Creek Cemetery at Washing D.C. displays symbols representing The Knights of Pythias—a knight’s helmet surmounts a shield with a skull and crossbones and three letters, “F”, “C”, and “B”, which stand for … Continue reading →

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Locomotive

Posted on August 3, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

PAPA MAX SCHUSTER BORN OCT. 12, 1850 DIED SEPT. 17, 1895   MOTHER Louisa Bindeman Schuster 1853 – 1918 The rustic movement of the mid-nineteenth century was characterized by designs that were made to look like they were from the … Continue reading →

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Compare

Posted on July 19, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

According to an article written by Cynthia Mills and published in Vermont History 68 (Winter/Spring 2000): pages 35-57, artist and writer Lorado Taft compared and contrasted Karl Bitter’s Thanatos and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Henry Adams funerary sculpture which became known as … Continue reading →

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Six Scoops Under

Posted on June 15, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

  In 1978, two guys, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, in Burlington, Vermont, took a $5 ice cream-making course and rented out an abandoned gas station to start what has become one of the best and most well-known ice cream … Continue reading →

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Pieta

Posted on June 10, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

“YOUR HEART SHALL LIVE FOR EVER” PSALM XXII   ANDERSON DEVEREAUX DIETER BALTIMORE MD APRIL 18, 1824 – NEW YORK MARCH 25, 1878 EMMA GRANT HUBBARD DIETER MONTPELIER APRIL 17, 1825 – MONTPELIER OCTOBER 30, 1896 CHESTER HUBBARD WINTONBURY, CONN. … Continue reading →

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Critics be damned

Posted on June 6, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

IN MEMORY OF MINNIE KEY, ONLY CHILD OF EDWARD & RUTH SEVIER WILDER, BORN JANUARY 23, 1854, DIED FEBRUARY 21, 1861. — — EDWARD WILDER BORN DECEMBER 31, 1825, DIED MARCH 25, 1890. WITH PITY BEHOLD OUR HEARTS. OH! LORD. … Continue reading →

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Father Time

Posted on May 25, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

The monument marking the SENG -EICHER family graves in the Cave Hill Cemetery at Louisville, Kentucky, is not only a sundial, but the dial itself also displays another motif—the image of the grim reaper.  As the old Doublemint Gum commercial … Continue reading →

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Metaphors

Posted on May 19, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

The sundial has been a way to measure time since the Egyptians developed them over 3,500 years ago. Historians even believe that the obelisks of ancient Egypt were used to measure time even earlier. The sundial monument in the Cave … Continue reading →

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