By Ed Snyder on June 10, 2008
Not to be confused with an “All Ages Show,” this exhibit is a ten-year retrospective of Ed Snyder’s Cemetery Statuary Photography.
Posted in Announcements & Events | Tagged angels, art show, cemetery angels, cemetery photography, cemetery statuary, Photography
By Ed Snyder on January 29, 2008
Ed Snyder is having a show of his photography at St. Asaph Gallery, Feb. 17 – Mar. 16 2008.
Posted in Announcements & Events, Death & Dying, Grief & Mourning, Photography | Tagged angels, art show, cemetery angels, cemetery photography, cemetery statuary, Photography
By Ed Snyder on October 2, 2007
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.
Posted in Reviews | Tagged book review, death, dying, Photography
By Ed Snyder on August 31, 2006
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 off Main Street [...]
Posted in Announcements & Events | Tagged angels, art show, cemetery angels, cemetery photography, cemetery statuary, Photography
By Ed Snyder on August 18, 2006
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.
Posted in Death & Dying, Reviews | Tagged book review, death, poetry, spoon river
By admin on July 31, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Announcements & Events, Cemeteries, Death & Dying, Grief & Mourning | Tagged angels, art show, cemetery angels, cemetery photography, cemetery statuary, Photography
By Ed Snyder on July 11, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Interviews, Laurel Hill | Tagged laurel hill cemetery, ross mitchell
By Ed Snyder on July 11, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Interviews, Laurel Hill | Tagged ghost stories, hauntings, laurel hill cemetery, rocky, ross mitchell
By Ed Snyder on July 11, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Interviews, Laurel Hill, Symbolism | Tagged gravedigger's ball, laurel hill cemetery, ross mitchell, tiffany stained glass
By Ed Snyder on July 11, 2006
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 said death was more common in the 1800s?
Ross Mitchell: The life span was much shorter back then. And before there [...]
Posted in Death & Dying, Grief & Mourning, Interviews, Laurel Hill | Tagged child mortality, death, laurel hill cemetery, mourning, ross mitchell
