TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilson,Thomas
AU  - Gilson,William
TI  - Carved in stone: the artistry of early New England gravestones 
SN  - 9780819573025
AV  - F5 .G55 2012eb
U1  - 363.7/50974 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Middletown, CT
PB  - Wesleyan University Press
KW  - Cemeteries
KW  - New England
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Sepulchral monuments
KW  - Cimetières
KW  - Nouvelle-Angleterre
KW  - Ouvrages illustrés
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Environmental Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Environmental Science
KW  - fast
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Histoire
KW  - ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - 7
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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 80 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 cu
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