Death, Mourning & the Afterlife

Archive for February, 2006

Valentines Show at Joe’s Coffee Bar

Ed Snyder | February 3, 2006 | 0 Comments

My photography isn’t necessarily what one would call romantic, so it was with some trepidation that I agreed to enter some work in the February (Valentine’s) Show. Cupid and Psyche is not the Antonio Canova plaster sculpture from 1793, but a marble reproduction marking a grave at the entrance to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in [...]

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The Parkway as Road to the Necropolis?

Ed Snyder | February 2, 2006 | 0 Comments

This is the maiden blog in a series on cemetery experiences I’ve had. It is a reasonable facsimile of an article I had published in the Oct. 2004 issue of Weird New Jersey magazine. In the 8 years I’ve been roaming around cemeteries, the first four were spent shooting angels. I bagged a good number [...]

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Ed’s Cemetery Traveler Blog

The Cemeteries of Germantown February 6, 2012
Days after our mid-January tramp through Philadelphia’s Germantown cemeteries, I’m worshiping the Neti (pot) god, hoping the water doesn’t contain any parasitic brain-eating amoebas (see link at end). The frigid winter weather made my cold worse, in addition to freezing my fingertips off. But it was worth it. Two fellow cemetery travelers and I checked out […]
The Graves of Old Tampa Bay January 25, 2012
It’s so cold here in Philadelphia in mid-January that the veiled threat of snow makes me want to go to Florida for a while. So here we go. I was in Tampa a couple years ago, and spent some time in its quaint downtown Oaklawn Cemetery. If you think Florida has been northernized by all the tourists and retirees, a quick look at some of the gravestones will rem […]
What to Do with those Broken Old Tombstones? January 14, 2012
I heard something rather shocking the other day from the owner of a farmhouse near an old graveyard in rural Leeds, Maryland. It had to do with old broken tombstones. But just to keep you on edge for a bit, here’s the lead-in to the story. Rural graveyards can be quite small and are difficult to locate. Even with a map, you’ll drive right past them. As I at […]