Category Archives: Cemeteries & Funerals

At Armfield’s Grave

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Uncomely and Broken

This morning I went to the Beersheba Springs Assembly for the Posse Retreat, which had as its focus “Crime and Punishment.”  This was a great event, with many good conversations, impressive facilitating, lots to laugh and think about.  After lunch, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cemeteries & Funerals, Education, Sewanee, Slavery, Statues & Monuments, The South | 1 Comment

The Butt-Millet Fountain, A Memorial Hidden in Plain Sight

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Uncomely and Broken

I have written before about Major Archibald Butt, a notable alumnus of Sewanee who died heroically aboard the Titanic.  That’s him to the right, together with President Taft, from a stained glass window in All Saints’ Chapel which commemorates the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cemeteries & Funerals, Military, Nautical, Sewanee, Statues & Monuments, Tennessee | 6 Comments

In Search of Toad Hall

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

One wet afternoon this past summer in Oxford, I decided to take a walk to visit the grave of Kenneth Grahame, the author of The Wind in the Willows. I had loved the book as a boy, as many do. … Continue reading →

Posted in Boston, Cartoons, Cemeteries & Funerals, England, Family, Mythology, Oxford, Poetry | 11 Comments

The Least of My Brothers

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

JANUARY 2, 2012. Mark Byron McDonough, age 42, of Leominster. Son of the late Margaret B. (Donahue) and James M. McDonough. Survived by his guardian, Gene Buchman and family, with whom he lived for many years, and by foster brother … Continue reading →

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