INTERPRETIVE AIDS
PLANTINGS & BOTANICAL SYMBOLS IN CEMETERY ART
John J. Gallagher & Wilda J. Harrison
Cemeteries contain elegrant, varied plants and trees that create the serene beauty of their landscapes mirrored on the sculptures on monuments. Gallagher, a prominent historian, has turned an informed eye on the horticultural symbols of the garden cemetery, and translates them for the visitor. Harrison's accurate, handsome renderings identify each clearly for the cemetery visitor.
2004 ISBN:0-930194-66-7, Illustrated (Tent.), $9.95 Download Order Form
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF CEMETERY VISITS, A Teacher's Compendium
This portfolio provides an introduction with pull-out articles which can be photo-copied, to help students acquire information before a cemetery visit. Includes restoration, geology, instructions on rubbings, identity of carvers in the New York City area, interpretations of symbols and foreign languages. Locator guides to Trinity Church Yard, and Green-Wood Cemetery are included. Bibliography. The portfolio can be easily adapted to use in other cities.
2003 Unbound folder, $11.95 Download Order Form
LESSONS FROM THE DEAD, The Graveyard as a Classroom
Aids the educator to introduce local history, social customs, religion, horti-culture, sculpture, and geology in the local cemetery. An illustrated text that provides innovative lessons. By a licensed teacher of the N.Y.Board of Education.
1979 ISBN:0-930194-01-2 64 pp., Paper, $4.95 Download Order Form
TRANSLATING TOMBSTONE MYSTERIES, Foreign Languages & Symbols
$1.00 Download Order Form
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