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Author : Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.
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ISBN 13 : 9780844621296
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early New England Gravestone Rubbings written by Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Vincent Gillon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early New England Gravestone Rubbings written by Edmund Vincent Gillon and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductions of gravestone rubbings from grave sites in New England.
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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819501240
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Carved in Stone written by and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evocative photographs and essay illuminate early American gravestones Gravestones are colonial America's earliest sculpture and they provide a unique physical link to the European people who settled here. Carved in Stone book is an elegant collection of over 80 fine duotone photographs, each a personal meditation on an old stone carving, and on New England's past, where these stones tell stories about death at sea, epidemics such as small pox, the loss of children, and a grim view of the afterlife. The essay is a graceful narrative that explores a long personal involvement with the stones and their placement in New England landscape, and attempts to trace the curious and imperfectly documented story of carvers. Brief quotes from early New England writers accompany the images, and captions provide basic information about each stone. These meditative portraits present an intimate view of figures from New England graveyards and will be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in early Americana and fine art photography.
Author : Edmund Vincent Gillon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early New England Gravestone Rubbings written by Edmund Vincent Gillon and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductions of gravestone rubbings from grave sites in New England.
Author : Tamara E. Wasserman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gravestone Designs; Rubbings and Photographs from Early New York & New Jersey written by Tamara E. Wasserman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of engraved sculptural or painted images was a pagan practice, hesitantly adopted by the earliest Christians, who had to transform the old mythological symbols in order to express suitably the meanings of their new religion.
Author : Glenn A. Knoblock
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786470119
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book African American Historic Burial Grounds and Gravesites of New England written by Glenn A. Knoblock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence of the early history of African Americans in New England is found in the many old cemeteries and burial grounds in the region, often in hidden or largely forgotten locations. This unique work covers the burial sites of African Americans--both enslaved and free--in each of the New England states, and uncovers how they came to their final resting places. The lives of well known early African Americans are discussed, including Venture Smith and Elizabeth Freeman, as well as the lives of many ordinary individuals--military veterans, business men and women, common laborers and children. The author's examination of burial sites and grave markers reveals clues that help document the lives of black New Englanders from the 1640s to the early 1900s.
Author : Robert Stanford
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884483703
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reading Rural Landscapes: A Field Guide to New England's Past written by Robert Stanford and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Nowhere can you see the truth behind his comment more plainly than in rural New England, especially Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts. Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos. Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues. Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box. A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.
Author : Lisa Rogak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493023802
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stones and Bones of New England written by Lisa Rogak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's for their solace and beauty or for the sense of history that seeps from the ground, cemeteries are fascinating places to visit, this guide shows where to find the most interesting and unusual ones in all of New England. Some have headstones that are fine art, others are associated with notorious events, and others are the final resting place of famous poets, soldiers, and statesmen. Included are large public facilities as well as the small family burying grounds hidden away behind crumbling stone walls and along once-cultivated farmland. A sampling of cemeteries profiled: *Hope Cemetery in Barre, Vermont, where lifelike sculptures of angels and Greek goddesses stand next to a stone soccer ball and Shell Oil truck gravemarker, all elaborately carved from local granite by immigrant Italian stonecutters. *Spider Gates Cemetery, in Leicester, Massachusetts, a notorious Quaker burying ground famed for its frequent ghost sightings and still in use today. *A cemetery situated on the raised median of the Interstate in Warner, New Hampshire,which was preserved in 1970 by highway planners, who constructed the roadway around it. *Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, Vermont, final resting place of Timothy Clark Smith, whose 1893 crypt includes a window to help him escape in case he was buried alive. Driving directions are provided for each cemetery, and detailed maps show the location of the more obscure graveyards. This unique guide offers an intriguing way to learn about the history and culture of New England.
Author : Allan I. Ludwig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Graven Images written by Allan I. Ludwig and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art flourished: the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers. This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the first to consider this art in depth as a meaningful aesthetic-spiritual expression. It is reissued for today's readers, with a new preface outlining changes in the field since the book appeared in 1966.
Author : Lynette Strangstad
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780761991304
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Graveyard Preservation Primer written by Lynette Strangstad and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes assessing the problem, collecting data, cleaning and maintaining the site, and caring for gravestones.
