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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-013.mrc:173987928:3406
Source marc_columbia
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020 $a9781588381163
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm57125999
035 $a(OCoLC)57125999
035 $a(NNC)6199773
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050 0 $aNB1856.A4$bG664 2004
082 04 $a929.509
245 00 $aGone home :$bSouthern folk gravestone art /$ccompiled and edited by Jack and Olivia Solomon ; photographs by Suzannah Solomon.
246 30 $aSouthern folk gravestone art
260 $aMontgomery, Ala. :$bNew South Books,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $a131 pages, 1 unnumbered page :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes CIP cataloging which assumes a 1996 publication date.
505 00 $tHistorical Precedents for Alabama Epitaphs -- $tVisual Arts and the Written Word: A Unified Folk Aesthetic -- $tFrom Royalty to Common Folk: All Want To Be Remembered -- $tThe Epitaph Defined -- $tThe Epitaph as Biography -- $tThe Epitaph as a Greeting -- $tOccupational Epitaphs -- $tThe Epitaph as Blessing -- $tThe Epitaph as a Metaphor for Hope -- $tThe Epitaph as a Window to the Past -- $tA Note on the Lettering -- $tThe Epitaphs -- $tFor Further Study -- $tGravestone Writings as Folk Literature -- $tGravestones as Architecture/Sculpture -- $tLocal Sources -- $tThe History of Writing.
520 1 $a"Four decades ago, folklorists Jack and Olivia Solomon began visiting-often with their children-and documenting Southern cemeteries, recording the names, lives and epitaphs of thousands of the deceased. The volume they now share with us is not a Book of the Dead, but a Book of Life." "The Solomons reveal here their love and respect for the "final resting places" of this world. In these pages are recorded the sorrow for a lost child, the anger over the murder of a brother, the strengths of an admired civic leader, the life of a beloved preacher, the character of a stalwart soldier, as well as the grief for a mother, a father, a son, a daughter, a wife, a husband. Many of these epitaphs console and give promise of a "better home over yonder." Others remind one of the shortness of life and the surety of death. As in life, there is wit-the humor of a wife who reminds her spouse, "I told you I was sick!"-and profundity-the laconic remark, "She hath done what she could."" "Read Gone Home for the joy of remembrance and for the pleasure of discovery-the discovery of brave, loving, compassionate men and women who have "gone home." Read this book because it will speak to you as if you were walking through a familar cemetery." "The book also discusses historical precedents for Alabama epitaphs, different types of epitaphs, gravestone writings as folk literature, gravestones as architecture/sculpture, and the lettering of epitaphs. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSepulchral monuments$zAlabama.
650 0 $aEpitaphs$zAlabama.
650 0 $aFolk art$zAlabama$xThemes, motives.
700 1 $aSolomon, Jack,$d1927-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77007297
700 1 $aSolomon, Olivia,$d1937-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77007270
700 1 $aSolomon, Suzannah.
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