Grave (Juvenile) Humor
Ypsidixit posted this image of a gravestone in her image heavy post about Ypsilanti’s high-tacky Union-Udell Cemetary.
I couldn’t resist:
Ypsidixit posted this image of a gravestone in her image heavy post about Ypsilanti’s high-tacky Union-Udell Cemetary.
I couldn’t resist:
June 12th, 2005 at 6:20 pm
Poor Julia S.
You see a lot of that upward-pointing finger image, and we’ve seen two examples of the mystifying downward-pointing finger, too. Grave iconography is a fascinating subject to me. They are clues to the nineteenth century mindset or the “brands” or “logos” if you will that existed in the culture at the time.
I hesitated to use the word “tacky,” and seem disrespectful (we weren’t–we tidied up fallen memorials and plants as we went) but there were a couple of football fields of faded plastic flowers in there. And all kinds of cheap decorations that jarred with the solemnity of death. But to each his own.
June 12th, 2005 at 8:56 pm
Mwahaha and FUCK OFF!!
November 7th, 2005 at 5:24 pm
Oakwood Cemetery in Saline (on Michigan Avenue west of downtown) has many wonderful old stones in the old part, at the back, along the Macon Road. There more examples of scrolls that look like rolls of “bathroom tissue”, hands pointing upward to show the way to heaven, hands holding bibles (open and closed), hands reaching down from heaven with pointing fingers that appear to be grabbing rings (pulling an individual link from the family chain of links?). The only sideways-pointing hand I’ve seen is in the Judd Cemetery, where Judd Road meets the Saline-Milan Road. The hand on this 130-year-old monument seems to be pointing the way to Saline, a few miles north. Maybe the deceased thought Saline was as good as heaven? Others may agree with that sentiment even today . . . .
November 30th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
My grandfather is buried un Udell Cemetary….I think the tombstone states “JUDD” I need his death date for my research….also that of ‘Rose’ and ‘Helen’ who should be nearby….