This week is the 35th Annual AGS (Association for Gravestone Studies) Conference, being held at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey. (Conference runs June 19-24, 2012; Ed Snyder will be on site in the Sales Room on Friday, June 22 with his StoneAngels artwork – cards, prints, and books! (Read more here: http://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences.htm) Headstone […]
Ed Snyder is having a show of his photography at St. Asaph Gallery, Feb. 17 – Mar. 16 2008.
Greetings! I’ll be exhibiting some of my cemetery photography at the new Mugshots CoffeeHouse location in Manayunk, Sept. 4 – 30, 2006. You can now buy products with Celestial Angel (to the left) and Cemetery (featured in Death Depicted in Cemetery Symbolism – Part 2).Mugshots CoffeeHouse & Cafe 110 Cotton Street. Philadelphia, PA 19127 Just […]
For the first time, I’ve mixed the content of one of my shows–angels and demons. I was offered the opportunity to hang work at Mugshots, a coffee house in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia. As Mugshots is right across the street from Eastern State Penitentiary, I decided to show both bodies of work (especially since […]
A bit of self promotion: Cemetery and Penitentiary Photography by Ed Snyder July 3 – 31, 2006 Mugshots CoffeeHouse 21st & Fairmount Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19130 (267) 514-7145
This week is the 35th Annual AGS (Association for Gravestone Studies) Conference, being held at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey. (Conference runs June 19-24, 2012; Ed Snyder will be on site in the Sales Room on Friday, June 22 with his StoneAngels artwork – cards, prints, and books! (Read more here: http://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences.htm) Headstone […]
This article is part 3 in the three part series on Death Depicted in Cemetery Symbolism that covers the mourning dove, roadside memorials, urns, and other symbols of death.
This article is part 2 in the three part series on Death Depicted in Cemetery Symbolism that covers wolf tables, cemetery gates, and mourning women.
Ed Snyder is having a show of his photography at St. Asaph Gallery, Feb. 17 – Mar. 16 2008.
In a six year study lead by Dr. Keith Fox, a cardiology professor at the University of Edinburgh, researchers found that deaths from heart attacks have fallen sharply. The trends parallel the growing use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, blood thinners, and angioplasty, the procedure that opens clogged arteries.
Here’s a case for the bizarre. Workers at a Co-op funeral home mixed the remains of cremation ashes with grit and scattered them on a disabled ramp outside to prevent customers from slipping on during wintery conditions, reports Sunday Mail.
This article is part of a series on How Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery Is Reinventing Itself. It is based on an interview with Ross Mitchell, Executive Director of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA. Stoneangels: As far as actually getting to Laurel Hill, you can see it from Roosevelt Boulevard, but you have no idea […]
This article is part of a series on How Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery Is Reinventing Itself. It is based on an interview with Ross Mitchell, Executive Director of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA. Stoneangels: Let me ask you about Sylvester Stallone and shooting the opening scenes of [the upcoming movie] “Rocky VI,” at Laurel […]
This article is part of a series on How Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery Is Reinventing Itself. It is based on an interview with Ross Mitchell, Executive Director of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA. Stoneangels: You have an artifact exhibit in the building next door-I remember seeing things when we were over there taking donated […]
Drawing from his experience as a paramedic in Harlem, the author takes us on a gritty ride through the squalid backstreets of NYC circa 1990. Through his main character Frank, a paramedic, Mr. Burke relates life through ambulance calls with gruesome clarity and realism.
The author of this poetic odyssey, Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950), was an enormously prolific American writer and poet. He is known mainly for Spoon River, his most popular work.
In Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach gave a humorous summary of what happens to our bodies when we die. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife looks beyond the physical for proof that a part of us survives death.
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