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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: The Language of the Dead: Victorian Funerary Symbol
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 age_of_the_Dead_Victorian_Funerary_Symbolism\nEvent Date Begin: 2009-12-05
 \nEvent Date End: 2009-12-05\n\nVictorian Philadelphians loved visual symb
 olism\, and even their simplest grave markers are likely to be ornamented 
 by ivy (for eternal life)\, lilies (for resurrection) or hour glasses (for
  brevity of life). Oftentimes\, the symbolism is both lavish and individua
 lized.  A civic reformer is memorialized with a bas-relief showing the Sch
 uylkill Canal and the Philadelphia Water Works. A prison reformer is celeb
 rated with a grand model of Moyamensing Prison. A shattered column\, a cav
 alry officer's sword and a pair of spurs mark the resting place of one of 
 the first soldiers to die at the Battle of Little Big Horn\, infamously kn
 own as Custer's Last Stand. A mother who died in childbirth is compellingl
 y depicted clasping her two dead babies. Nineteenth-century Philadelphians
  understood Laurel Hill not only as a cemetery\, but also as a vast sculpt
 ural garden and retreat. Accordingly\, they came by the thousands to read 
 the symbolic messages that the dead had left for the living.  The Language
  of the Dead\, a walking tour of Laurel Hill Cemetery\, will be expertly g
 uided by Dr. Michael Brooks\, a professor at West Chester University\, for
 mer board member of the Friends of Laurel Hill\, and longtime docent for t
 he cemetery.\n\nStart time: 2 pm
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SUMMARY:The Language of the Dead: Victorian Funerary Symbolism
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