Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography: Written and Photographed by Douglas Keister
"Visual symbolism on grave markers has been present as long as such memorials have existed, and the process remains vital and ongoing in our own time. In America, as elsewhere, it is possible to read in broad terms the great shifts in cultural values that have occured over the course of time by closely examining the changing nature of these carved, sculpted, and engraved images...
...Here, within these outdoor repositories of art and history, we ponder the beauty and meaning of the many ways our ancestors and contemporaries have found to express the values and fundemental truths that have marked them both as individuals and as members of a collective society." Douglas Kiester, Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography, (Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2004), 8-9.
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