Gravestone Chronicles

Author : Theodore Chase
Publisher : New England Historic Genealogical Society(NEHGS)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gravestone Chronicles written by Theodore Chase and published by New England Historic Genealogical Society(NEHGS). This book was released on 1990 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gravestone Chronicles I includes insightful essays and new scholarship on eighteenth-century New England gravestone carvers and their art. (An every-name, every-place index to both books is included in Volume II.).

Author : David R. Mould
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476609926
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Gravestone Art of Charleston, South Carolina, 1695-1802 written by David R. Mould and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here lyes Buried the Body of MARTHA PERONNEAU...Departed This Life December Ye 14th 1746 Aged 13 Years." Such an inscription was typical of 18th century grave markers in Charleston, South Carolina. Many epitaphs went on to reveal much more about the deceased: personality, religious beliefs, career accomplishments and social position. Attention to social matters was a natural part of life in Charleston, where descendants of the city's 17th century British founders sought to recreate the class-conscious culture of aristocratic England. The merging of this culture with influences from French Huguenots, German Lutherans, Scottish Presbyterians and Spanish Jews led to funeral practices unique in the American colonies. Focusing on pieces created between 1695 and 1802, this volume offers a detailed examination of the tombstones and grave markers from 18th century Charleston. It discusses not only the general trends and the symbolism of the period's gravestone art--such as skulls, portraits, ascending souls and stylized vegetation--but also examines specific instances of these popular motifs. Tombstones from Charleston's oldest and most significant churches, including the Circular Congregational Church, St. Philip's Anglican Church, the French Huguenot Church and the First (Scots) Presbyterian Church, are explored in detail. The work looks at how Charleston gravestones differed from funerary art elsewhere in the American colonies and reveals them to be some of the earliest examples of American sculpture. A guide to colonial gravestone symbols and a glossary of relevant Latin terms are also included.

Author : John G.S. Hanson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476643296
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Gravestones of Old New England written by John G.S. Hanson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The graveyards of old New England hold an incredible range of poetic messages in the epitaphs etched into the gravestones, each a profound expression of emotion, culture, religion, and literature. These epitaphs are old, but their themes are timeless: mourning and faith, grief and hope, loss, and memory. This book tells the story of a years-long walk among gravestones and shares insights gained along the way. It identifies the source texts and authors chosen for these stones; interprets something of the tastes and beliefs of the people who did the choosing; offers some hypotheses on the various ways these texts were accessible to readers in remote towns and villages; gives a brief summary of the religious context of the times; and reflects on how the language and literature chosen for these epitaphs express these peoples' conflicted and evolving attitudes towards life, death, and eternity.

Author : Ron Romano
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439657211
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Gravestones in Southern Maine written by Ron Romano and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slate gravestones of southern Maine bear evidence to the region's fascinating history, from shipwrecks and famous wartime sea captains to countless ordinary citizens. Master stone-cutter Bartlett Adams memorialized the tragedy and triumph of the region in nearly two thousand gravestones. Examine the artistry of the headstones that mark the resting places of three generations of the same family who all went down with the schooner Charles, and discover the grief that Adams poured into the stones for his own three children. Through deep and original research, author and guide Ron Romano narrates the early history of southern Maine and one man's legacy, carved in stone.

Author : Richard F. Veit
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813542367
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones written by Richard F. Veit and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones presents a culturally diverse account of New Jersey's historic burial places from High Point to Cape May and from the banks of the Delaware to the ocean-washed Shore, to explain what cemeteries tell us about people and the communities in which they lived.

Author : Peggy McDowell
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726348
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revival Styles in American Memorial Art written by Peggy McDowell and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated volume, art historian Peggy McDowell and folklorist Richard E. Meyer blend their respective disciplinary perspectives, along with their shared long-standing fascination with cemeteries and funerary material culture, to provide a thoroughgoing descriptive analysis of this dramatic chapter in the history of American memorial art.

Author : Theodore Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gravestone Chronicles I written by Theodore Chase and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Stewart Taylor
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312337391
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judgment of the Grave written by Sarah Stewart Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard art historian Sweeney St. George investigates the murder of a man wearing Revolutionary War clothing, who has been killed during a reenactment of a battle in Concord, Massachusetts.

Author : Patricia Law Hatcher
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618589733
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Researching Your Colonial New England Ancestors written by Patricia Law Hatcher and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the early colonists came to America, they were braving a new world, with new wonders and difficulties. Family historians beginning the search for their ancestors from this period run into a similar adventure, as research in the colonial period presents a number of exciting challenges that genealogists may not have experienced before. This book is the key to facing those challenges. This new book, Researching Your Colonial New England Ancestors, leads genealogists to a time when their forebears were under the rule of the English crown, blazing their way in that uncharted territory. Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, provides a rich image of the world in which those ancestors lived and details the records they left behind. With this book in hand, family historians will be ready to embark on a journey of their own, into the unexplored lines of their colonial past.

Author : Theodore Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780880820592
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gravestone Chronicles: More eighteenth-century New England carvers and an exploration of gravestone heraldica written by Theodore Chase and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gravestone Chronicles I includes insightful essays and new scholarship on eighteenth-century New England gravestone carvers and their art. (An every-name, every-place index to both books is included in Volume II.).