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"To Know Him Is to Love Him" is a song written by #PhilSpector, inspired by the words on his father's #gravestone, "To Know Him Was to Love Him". It was first recorded by the only vocal group of which he was a member, #TheTeddyBears. The single spent three weeks at No. 1 on the #Billboard Hot 100 #chart in 1958, while reaching No. 2 on the UK's #NewMusicalExpress chart. #PeterAndGordon.
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YouTubeThe Teddy Bears - To Know Him Is To Love Him - 1958By Bertrand Vandemeulebroucke
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This Is My Glasgow

I love the way the moss has grown into the inscription on this 18th Century gravestone in the Glasgow Cathedral Old Burial Ground. The stone is lying flat on the ground allowing water to gather in the grooves, resulting in an increased growth in the moss within the words in comparison to the surrounding stone. The light on it today was juat perfect to highlight this differential growth.

An 18th Century gravestone with moss growing in a way to highlight the inscription upon it.
#glasgow#glasgowcathedral#gravestone
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Fairhaven Person

#Writers #WritersCoffeeClub #WordWeavers #PennedPossibilities

I use my local #cemetery (created by the grandfather of President FDR in 1850) in three ways--for relaxing walks with the dog, for discovering and enjoying old #gravestone #art, and for finding character names for my writing. The third is particularly helpful because the fictional town in my work in progress is located where I live, so the dates on the graves help suggest popular local names for characters of different ages and historical times.

Detail of a 19th century gravestone with a high relief carving of a flying bird and a rose branch.
Me, and older male, taking a photo of a gravestone in a cemetery while also tending my handsome little Mini Australian Shepherd.
#RiversideCemetery#Fairhaven#Massachusetts
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This Is My Glasgow

Memento Mori, or Reminders of Death, on a gravestone in the graveyard of the Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow. Particularly common on 18th Century Scottish gravestones, these were symbols such as skulls, crossbones, hour glasses, trumpets, skeletons and spades, associated with death. They are generally found on the reverse of the gravestove, with the main inscription on the other side.

Memento mori on a gravestone in a Scottish cemetery.
#glasgow#govan#gravestone
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Eclectic Human

Came upon this, from the British Lichen Society: "#Churchyards are of supreme importance for #lichen #conservation." This churchyard is certainly doing its part: here's a #gravestone covered in lichen at Cille Choirill in #Scotland.

I'm torn between appreciation of the way lichen softens a graveyard and frustration that so many inscriptions become illegible.
#LichenSubscribe #TombTuesday

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An erect tombstone covered in grey, black, and green lichen, much of it forming circular green patterns of map lichen. In the background are more tombstones, many of them Celtic crosses, as well as a hill and some trees.
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His & Hearse Press

#MondayMourning: Louise the Unfortunate

No one knows Louise's real story. Legend has it that she traveled to Natchez sometime after the Civil War in search of her fiancé. For reasons unknown, she found herself stranded and husbandless.

Too proud to return home, she became a seamstress, maid, then "woman of the night." After dying in her mid-20s, a mysterious benefactor paid for her funeral and this headstone, more than what most paupers received.

A purple damask frame around a black background. A old white marble gravestone bears the inscription “Louise the Unfortunate.” Text reads, “Monday Mourning: Louise the Unfortunate. Natchez City Cemetery, Mississippi. No one knows Louise's real story. Legend has it that she traveled to Natchez sometime after the Civil War in search of her fiancé. For reasons unknown, she found herself stranded and husbandless. Too proud to return home, she became a seamstress, maid, then "woman of the night." After dying in her mid-20s, a mysterious benefactor paid for her funeral and this headstone, more than what most paupers received.”
#HisAndHearsePress#Cemetery#Monument
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