Author: Harriette Merrifield ForbesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Gravestones of Early New England and the Men who Made Them, 1693-1800
Author: Harriette Merrifield ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Gravestones of Early New England and the Men who Made Them, 1653-1800
Author: Harriette Merrifield ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sepulchral monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Gravestones of Early New England and the Man who Made Them; 1653-1800 ...
Author: Mrs. Harriette Merrifield ForbesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Gravestones of Early New England, and the Man who Made Them, 1653-1800
Author: Harriette Merrifield ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Gravestones of Early New England and the Men who Made Them
Author: Harriette Merrifield ForbesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Carved in Stone
Author: Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819573027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
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 eighty 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.
Reading the Gravestones of Old New England
Author: John G.S. HansonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476685452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
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.
Four Interviews with the Daughter of Harriette Merrifield Forbes
Author: Katharine Forbes ErskinePublisher:
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Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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New England Gravestones
Author: Early New England Gravestone Rubbings
Author: Edmund Vincent GillonPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Reproductions of gravestone rubbings from grave sites in New England.