Meyer, Richard E., editorUtah State University Press, publisher2007-01-032007-01-031992http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87731Cemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large.Introduction: "so witty as to speak" / Richard E. Meyer -- Innocents in a worldly world: Victorian children's gravemarkers / Ellen Marie Snyder -- The Bigham carvers of the Carolina Piedmont: stone images of an emerging sense of American identity / Edward W. Clark -- Images of logging on contemporary Pacific Northwest gravemarkers / Richard E. Meyer -- The epitaph and personality revolution / J. Joseph Edgette -- The Upland South folk cemetery complex: some suggestions of origin / D. Gregory Jeane -- J.N.B. de Pouilly and French sources of revival style design in New Orleans cemetery architecture / Peggy McDowell -- The Afro-American section of Newport, Rhode Island's common burying ground / Ann and Dickran Tashjian -- Navajo, Mormon, Zuni graves: Navajo, Mormon, Zuni ways / Keith Cunningham -- San Fernando cemetery: decorations of love and loss in a Mexican-American community / Lynn Gosnell and Suzanne Gott -- Western Pennsylvania cemeteries in transition: a model for subregional analysis / Thomas J. Hannon -- Monumental bronze: a representative American company / Barbara Rotundo -- Strange but genteel pleasure grounds: tourist and leisure uses of nineteenth-century rural cemeteries / Blanche Linden-Ward.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Sepulchral monuments -- United StatesCemeteries -- United StatesEpitaphs -- United StatesUnited States -- Social life and customsTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University members only.