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Monochrome Weekly Theme

Motz Monument
St. Michael's Cemetery, East Elmhurst, Queens

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Looking at the Sky on Friday

Tisha of Crazy Working Mom hosts this extraordinary meme called Looking at the Sky on Friday.

Old Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York.

There was a time in America when people decorated the graves of loved ones with beautiful statues. This Age roughly coincided with the period between two major milestones in our country's history—the Civil War and the Great Depression. During these half-dozen decades, a stone-carving industry flourished, both in this country and abroad. And the quality of the statuary created was exceptional. There were angels, in all sizes, as well as statues of adults and children which were sometimes stylized, sometimes perfect likenesses. These monuments could be pricey, with the larger ones costing as much as a modest house. But, if you could afford it, statues were fashionable. Source

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