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In my local graveyard


This is the nearest graveyard to my house and I walk through it a lot.
Buried there are many of the well-to-do citizens of this town in the
hundred years after it was established in the mid-1800s, and it
includes a few pretty nice pieces of sculpture.
It is called the "General Protestant Cemetery." Meant primarily for
Methodists, there's a certain No-Show-Offs-Here tone to most of the
graves. But this is the grave of the family of one of the prime
ministers of Newfoundland (he himself, Robert Bond, is mentioned on
the inscription but not actually buried there) and it projects an
image of power and righteousness. It isn't the only angel in the GPC,
but it is the biggest. He seems to be holding on to his sword,
sheathed on his left side, so perhaps this is meant to be the
Archangel Michael, ready to pull it out.
This picture, taken in late April 2017, is on Fuji 200 film (expired
in July 2002) shot in my Olympus 35DC. In cleaning up the spots on
the negative, I noticed that the angel has lost two or three fingers;
probably the stones of children who feared not.
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EDIT, a few hours later: After looking at a picture of this angel I took in 1985 (!), taken from the other side, I see that in the angel's left hand is a horn, not a sword: that's Angel Gabriel, not Michael. Duhhh.
And it isn't even the angel on the Bond grave, either! Double duhh. The Bond angel is carrying a basket, and looks very demure by comparison.
Buried there are many of the well-to-do citizens of this town in the
hundred years after it was established in the mid-1800s, and it
includes a few pretty nice pieces of sculpture.
It is called the "General Protestant Cemetery." Meant primarily for
Methodists, there's a certain No-Show-Offs-Here tone to most of the
graves. But this is the grave of the family of one of the prime
ministers of Newfoundland (he himself, Robert Bond, is mentioned on
the inscription but not actually buried there) and it projects an
image of power and righteousness. It isn't the only angel in the GPC,
but it is the biggest. He seems to be holding on to his sword,
sheathed on his left side, so perhaps this is meant to be the
Archangel Michael, ready to pull it out.
This picture, taken in late April 2017, is on Fuji 200 film (expired
in July 2002) shot in my Olympus 35DC. In cleaning up the spots on
the negative, I noticed that the angel has lost two or three fingers;
probably the stones of children who feared not.
-----------------------------
EDIT, a few hours later: After looking at a picture of this angel I took in 1985 (!), taken from the other side, I see that in the angel's left hand is a horn, not a sword: that's Angel Gabriel, not Michael. Duhhh.
And it isn't even the angel on the Bond grave, either! Double duhh. The Bond angel is carrying a basket, and looks very demure by comparison.
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