Posted in Somewhere other than a cemetery, tagged cleveland, grave art, memorial brass, ohio, t-shirt, woodland cemetery on September 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Lately I’ve acquired two cool new t-shirts related to this blog.
The first is a rendering of a medieval memorial brass in gold on a black t-shirt. It’s pretty awesome, even for those who don’t recognize memorial brasses.
The second, acquired from the Woodland Cemetery Foundation on the day of the Historic Cleveland Cemeteries Scavenger Hunt is the source of the title of this post:
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Crosses, tagged Crosses, euclid, euclid cemetery, grave art, ohio, sculpture on September 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Sometimes in cemeteries you will find a weather-beaten simple wooden cross, usually over an otherwise empty grave-size plot. These crosses always seem particularly sad to me. I could be wrong, but I have to guess that one reason to place a wooden cross over the grave of a loved one is that there is not enough money to erect a stone monument. And odds are, the wooden cross is going to deteriorate and disappear many years before most stones.
The title of this post just popped into my head. I don’t know very much of the hymn of the same title. I just remember my Great Aunts Loretta and Patricia singing it for their role as the Salvation Army ladies during our family’s one and only homemade Western movie.
A Grave Concern 