Proof!

For some overriding reason, somebody put D.G. Parr’s last will and testament front-and-center on his family monument in Cave Hill.

Far-off shores

What is meant by the unusual image of a ship off distant shores on Hiatt Hepburn’s 1864 monument in Cave Hill?

Dance with Me

The Zehnder mausoleum in Cave Hill is accompanied by bronze portraits envisioning a reunion in the après vie. Updated with a proposed design source from the Mazzone monument in Florence, Italy.

Pickelhaube!

A 4-year-old boy sculpted in a realistic Prussian military getup of Franco-Prussian War vintage on his tomb in KENTUCKY? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, people.

Foell’s errand

The Desiderata appears in an interesting textual variant on the Foell monument.

Wisps of fog on the Ohio River

The last gasp of a thick morning fog rising from the Ohio River at Louisville.

Baby on the half-?

An astonishing variant of an already improbable monument type.

What in tarnation?!

An astounding ‘project’ commemoration for Theodore Steffen in Cave Hill Cemetery.

Byron by way of Louisville

A Louisville mayor celebrated by a Zolnay bust and some Byronic verse.