O tempora! O mores!

Even gilded-age figures of grief have picked up bad habits recently!

An interesting and malleable monument type.

A grand beaux-arts monument evolves to something charming.

Making Lemonade

George E. Lemon monument, Rock Creek Cemetery. Photo: author. I suppose you would probably guess that there were trade journals for granite and marble suppliers and cutters in the great age of public art in this country, from about 1890 to 1930. One such journal, The Monumental News, celebrated the above George E. Lemon monument …