Love and Death: Gene Tierney in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

SteynonLine ^ | February 8, 2025 | Rick McGinnis

[Chickensoup]

Thanks

I appreciate it.

I follow funerary art. Not an expert just respect how grief expresses itself in everyday life.

[TalBlack]

This is also on a stone in Calvary over the grave of a 15 year old girl who died circa 1885:

SNATCHED IN YOUTH AND BLOOM AWAY
TO THIS DARK GRAVE TO DECAY
SO DEAR FRIENDS AND FAMILY
WHEN YOU COME HERE PRAY FOR ME. ( Not sure I’d put that on my child’s stone).

[TalBlack]

Saw the monument this AM remembered your request “1st Lt. Alfred S. Inzerilli “ Calvery Cemetery Queens NY. A lot of the Calvary monuments are on Find A Grave.

[Chickensoup]

I willlook him up.

My mother spoke about the monuments young girls Italian cemeteries being a broken column.

[TalBlack]

The broken column is a fairly common thing a hundred years ago. I see them all the time. IIRC it signifies an interrupted life. An early death. Jews and Christians.

[Chickensoup]

Haven’t seen them here

[TalBlack]

Here in NY we have scores of monster acre rural cemeteries. They started in the 1840s and have filled up pretty quick. The almost five hundred acre Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn was during the 19th century and has become again a tourist destination. I’m typing this in Second Calvary in Queens surrounded by the graves of three million people. The most either in the world or in America, can’t remember which.

If you ever make it to NYC visit Greenwood in Brooklyn. There’s a trolly that will take you on the tour or you can walk. If you truly have an interest in funerary art and go to Greenwood pack a lunch, you’ll kill the entire day and then some.

[Chickensoup]

Sounds very interesting. Fun even.