Stone Angels Project

We wanted to follow up last week's with an image from this angle. From the air, you can see the distance from finished grade to the edge is a significant amount of granite. As you start to see more of the Horse's Mane revealed, hopefully this gives some insight on the amount of rock (height, width and depth) that has been taken away.

So cool!

Amazing! - Today, November 11, at exactly 11:11 am -- and every single Veteran’s Day -- the sun aligns perfectly with the Anthem Veteran’s Memorial in Arizona to shine through the ellipses of the five marble pillars representing each branch of the Armed Forces, illuminating The Great Seal of the 🇺🇸 United States!

Can you go?

Registration for the 2025 Association for Gravestone Studies Conference is open! June 17 - June 22, 2025 in York, PA. Join your fellow taphophiles for lectures, tours, awards, workshops, roundtables, late night, and more! All are welcome - preservationists, educators, and fellow cemetery lovers of all kind! https://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences/2025-conference-york-pa

Wow…

This is one of the finest gravestones that Josiah Manning ever carved. It is located at Old Mansfield Center Cemetery in Mansfield, Connecticut, and it marks the grave of Huckens Storrs, who died in 1784. The above-ground portion of the lengthy inscription reads:

In Memory of Mr. Huckens
Storrs who on ye 18th of Aug’st
AD 1784 Departed this Life in
ye 79th year of his Age; leave
ing behind him well ground
ed Hopes of his Resurection
to eternal Life, his Surviving
Posterity may here recollect
ye ankcious Concerns of a ten
der Parent for there eternal
Welfare. As a Husband kind
As a Parent tender & Compa-
sionate, as a Friend Sincere
In whatever Station or Carack
ter in Life; whether as a
Senator a Citizen or in his
Private Capasaty he exhibi-
ted ye Carackter of a faith-