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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
[Historic Marker Application: Millbrook (Roy-Hardin House)]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Millbrook (Roy-Hardin House), in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
2002
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Malcolm and Margaret Badger Reed Estate]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Malcolm and Margaret Badger Reed Estate, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, and photographs.
Date:
2006
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Joseph and Mary Robinson Martin House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Joseph and Mary Robinson Martin House, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
2001
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: German Free School]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the German Free School, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, maps, and photographs.
Date:
2001~
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Philquist-Wood House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Philquist-Wood House, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
2003
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Penn and Nellie Wooldridge House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Penn and Nellie Wooldridge House, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
2003
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Henry H. and Bertha Sterzing Ziller House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Henry H. and Bertha Sterzing Ziller House, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, maps, and photographs.
Date:
2001
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Edmund and Emily Miller House]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Edmund and Emily Miller House, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date:
2001
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Seaholm Power Plant]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Seaholm Power Plant, in Austin, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date:
August 13, 2007
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Matthews School Photograph #3]
Photograph of the Matthews School, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
2003
Creator:
O'Brien, Kim Kronzer
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Malcolm and Margaret Badger Reed Estate Photograph #4]
Photograph of the Malcolm and Margaret Badger Reed Estate, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
August 2005
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Buddington-Benedict-Sheffield Compound Photograph #6]
Photograph of the Buddington-Benedict-Sheffield Compound, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
2004
Creator:
Iverson, Rick
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Norwood Tower Photograph #3]
Photograph of the Norwood Tower, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
2006
Creator:
Allen, Phoebe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Edmund and Emily Miller House Photograph #1]
Photograph of the Edmund and Emily Miller House, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
October 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Edmund and Emily Miller House Photograph #3]
Photograph of the Edmund and Emily Miller House, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
October 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Matthews School Photograph #4]
Photograph of the Matthews School, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
2003
Creator:
O'Brien, Kim Kronzer
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Norwood Tower Photograph #2]
Photograph of the Norwood Tower, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
2006
Creator:
Allen, Phoebe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Edmund and Emily Miller House Photograph #6]
Photograph of the Edmund and Emily Miller House, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
October 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Scarbrough Building Photograph #1]
Photograph of the Scarbrough Building, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
September 2001
Creator:
Allen, Phoebe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Stephen F. Austin Hotel Photograph #1]
Photograph of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
March 2002
Creator:
Vaughn, D.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Malcolm and Margaret Badger Reed Estate Photograph #1]
Photograph of the Malcolm and Margaret Badger Reed Estate, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
August 2005
Creator:
Allen, Phoebe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Scarbrough Building Photograph #4]
Photograph of the Scarbrough Building, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
October 2001
Creator:
Allen, Phoebe
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Edmund and Emily Miller House Photograph #9]
Photograph of the Edmund and Emily Miller House, in Austin, Texas.
Date:
October 2000
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History