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Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture
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A fifteen-year-old high school cheerleader is killed while driving on a dangerous curve one afternoon. By that night, her classmates have erected a roadside cross decorated with silk flowers, not as a grim warning, but as a loving memorial. In this study of roadside crosses, the first of its kind, Holly Everett presents the history of these unique commemoratives and their relationship to contemporary memorial culture. The meaning of these markers is presented in the words of grieving parents, high school students, public officials, and private individuals whom the author interviewed during her fieldwork in Texas. Everett documents over thirty-five memorial sites with twenty-five photographs representing the wide range of creativity. Examining the complex interplay of politics, culture, and belief, she emphasizes the importance of religious expression in everyday life and analyzes responses to death that this tradition. Roadside crosses are a meeting place for communication, remembrance, and reflection, embodying on-going relationships between the living and the dead. They are a bridge between personal and communal pain–and one of the oldest forms of memorial culture. Scholars in folklore, American studies, cultural geography, cultural/social history, and material culture studies will be especially interested in this study.
Date:
October 15, 2002
Creator:
Everett, Holly
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: State Legislation]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
April 15, 1969, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Austin]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
1969-04-15T24:00:00
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Austin]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
April 15, 1969, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Spending Bill]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
April 15, 1969, 8:25 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Gay lib weddings]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Attorney General Crawford Martin ruling against same sex marriage licenses.
Date:
September 15, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mansion]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a smoke bomb that exploded on the South lawn of the Govorner's Mansion.
Date:
July 15, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Criminal appeals]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
June 15, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Texas taxes]
Photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
September 15, 1972, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: AP Austin]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
August 15, 1972, 6:30 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Austin school desegregation]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Justice Department requesting a federal judge to require an Austin school board to submit a new desegregation plan. The federal appeals court rejected an earlier plan that was approved by U. S. district judge Jack Roberts.
Date:
August 15, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Budget]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Governor Preston Smith revealing in a meeting with Texas legislature that he obtained federal assistance of 125-million dollars to augment the state's welfare program.
Date:
June 15, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: McGovern]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about George McGovern returning to Texas to campaign.
Date:
October 15, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Man Eating]
Photograph of a man sitting at the end of a long table eating a plate of food. The room might be a classroom; there are signs on the wall on the left reading "ones," "tens," and "hundreds."
Date:
July 15, 1959
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman in a Garden]
Photograph of a woman standing in the middle of a vegetable garden near rows of lettuce. In the background a house and clotheslines are visible.
Date:
April 15, 1958
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman Gardening]
Photograph of a woman gardening in a yard. She squats near a row of heads of lettuce. A wooden house is visible behind her.
Date:
April 15, 1958
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman at a Bathtub]
Photograph of a woman washing towels in a bathtub.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman Holding a Quilt]
Photograph of a woman standing in a room and holding up a quilt. Her face is only partially visible above it.
Date:
July 15, 1956
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Green & White Grocery Store]
Photograph of the Green and White Grocery store building, taken from a building across the street. The store was located at 1201 East 7th Street in Austin.
Date:
July 15, 1958
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Woman Tailoring Clothes]
Photograph of a woman tailoring clothing on another woman, while standing in a bedroom. A plaque on the wall above the bed reads "Jesus Never Fails."
Date:
April 15, 1958
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Women Sewing]
Photograph of four women in a room working at sewing machines making clothes. The tables are covered in fabric and projects.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[School Demonstration]
Photograph of a young woman and two young men standing in front of an auditorium at a table giving a demonstration. Other students sit in desks facing them.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Women with Pots and Pans]
Photograph of a woman sitting at a table covered in pots and pans, with two more women standing next to her. Empty chairs are facing them.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Young Woman Giving a Presentation]
Photograph of a woman standing at the front of a classroom speaking. A large pad of paper is on an easel next to her. An American flag is behind her. The backs of students sitting at desks facing her are visible.
Date:
July 15, 1961
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History