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Gifts from the Heart: Homemade Monuments & Memorials
(2010)
  • Kimberly J. Sawtelle, University of Maine
Abstract

Despite the lament among gravestone researchers of the homogenized nature of grave markers in the mid-20th through early 21st Century, it is possible to find personalized, homemade grave markers and ornate grave ornamentation that speaks to individual and family identity in the cemetery setting.

Keywords
  • Sepulcher studies,
  • Sepulchral monuments,
  • Gravestone Studies,
  • Grave Stone Studies,
  • Maine History
Publication Date
May 18, 2010
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Citation Information
Kimberly J. Sawtelle. "Gifts from the Heart: Homemade Monuments & Memorials" (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kimberly_sawtelle/7/