Lakeview Cemetery ~

Lakeview Cemetery is a privately owned, non-profit garden cemetery located in Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, and East Cleveland, Ohio.  It was founded in 1869 and favored by wealthy families and today is known for numerous lavish funerary monuments and mausoleums.

It encompasses 285 acres with 102,000+ already interred there.  Seventy acres remain and interment space is available for the next 100 years.

The James A. Garfield Memorial was erected in 1890 as the tomb of the assassinated president.  President Garfield was born in Ohio in 1831, the last president born in a log cabin.

Carved in Italy from one piece of Carrara marble, this sculpture of Garfield is eight feet tall.

The caskets of Garfield and his wife and the urns of his daughter and son-in-law rest in the lower area.

Other famous individuals buried at Lakeview Cemetery include John D. Rockefeller, JH Wade, Elliot Ness, former Cleveland mayor Carl B. Stokes and Adella Prentiss Hughes, the founder of the Cleveland Orchestra.

A 65 foot obelisk marks the grave of Rockefeller.

It was hard not going crazy posting pictures of the funerary monuments.

Though modest by comparison, I loved this one.

Amazing mausoleums . . .

The cemetery is home to Wade Memorial Chapel, featuring an interior designed by Louis Tiffany.  

In 1900, this Tiffany stained glass was sent to Paris for the Paris Exposition and returned unscathed!

What a magnificent place to wander.  You can read more about Lakeview Cemetery here.

Brenda, thank you for your comment.  You are correct.  Archibald Willard is from Wellington.  Even though I am only a half hour from there, I have never been to the Spirit of '76 Museum.  I need to put that on my "places to go" list.

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Lauren

Spirit of '76 ~

 

I'm sure many of you are familiar with this painting by Archibald McNeal Willard (1836 - 1918).  It is an 8' x 10' oil painting made in Ohio for our country's 100th year anniversary.  When first completed it was known as "Yankee Doodle" and only later became know as the "The Spirit of '76".  Critics at the time considered it to be cartoonish.  

The painting's popularity led Willard to paint an estimated 10 more versions.  The models were Hugh Moser, a Civil War veteran and friend of Willard's playing the fife, Henry K. Devereux, son of Gen. John H. Devereux served as the model for the drummer on the left and Willard's father, Rev. Samuel Willard, as the older drummer.

Now for a bit of trivia . . . 

The words to Yankee Doodle Dandy were written as a slap in the face to Americans.  "Yankee Doodle" is a famous example of an insult the backfired.  The term Yankee is difficult to nail down but some historians say it is derived from Dutch words that were pronounced "John Cheese" in the 1850's.  A "doodle" is a country hick, and a "dandy" is a conceited jerk.  Riding on a pony is an insult as a proper military commander rides a horse.  Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni is insulting because a macaroni was a pejorative term used to describe a fashionable man with feminine traits of 18th century Britain.  British troops played the song while marching out of Boston to Lexington and Concord in 1775.  The Colonists adopted the lyrics and tune for motivation.

Big Boy No. 4014 is on its return trip west after spending the 4th of July in Philadelphia.  There was no whistle stop this time around, but it did not stop people from lining the railroad tracks to witness its passing.  What a sight and sound to behold!!!  I am so thankful to have witnessed this marvelous machine, not once but twice.

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Lauren

America Banner update ~

I have made a bit of progress on my America Banner by Red Barn Rugs.  Cathy has some of the best patterns.  I have had many classes with her (I am a Cathy groupie!).  I see she will be vending during rug week at Sauder Village.  It will be good to see her.

Hopefully this will be finished before I head to my next hooking class with Jenny Smallridge of the Wooly Horse on July 21.  It shouldn't be a problem finishing it unless I get distracted, set it aside and move on to something else . . . sigh.  

Sure wish I could figure out how to take rug pictures without them being so washed out!!!

That's all I have.
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Lauren

Happy birthday America!!!

 

Most of my patriotic decor stays out year round.  Just flags are added here and there for the holiday.

In 2009, I had one lonely snowbird.  (Snowbirds are small rooftop devices attached to sloped roofs.  They prevent hazardous snow avalanches and ices slides by holding snow in place so it melts naturally or sheds in small, manageable amounts.)   Sorry for the blurred picture, but it was cropped way down.

The collection grew to three.

And then continued to grow over the years.  I had hit a dry spell and hadn't found any in a couple years, but on a recent play date bought four more.  Most are cast iron, but a couple I think are cast aluminum.

On a slaw cutter.  DSO brought the Home Sweet Home eagle and horseshoe from California for me.

On the kitchen baker's cupboard.

On the dining room jelly cupboard.

The mantle ~

Miscellaneous patriotic ~

Vintage Statue of Liberty on the dining room pie safe.  I also purchased the cross stitch sampler on my play date.  

Dated 1970 (the year I graduated high school!!!) I guess we are both considered vintage.

Punch needle eagle I did many years ago.

Hooked by Polly Minick.  Won in a benefit auction more than a decade ago.

Forty eight star flags and red, white and blue tops on the bottom shelf.

Bucket bench items left out all year (except for Christmas).

Closer up of some of some of the fun stuff on the top shelf.  Some vintage.  Some new.

Even the patriotic Santas are out year round.

The little landing heading upstairs.

In an old copper boiler from my folks' farm.

I will end with the front porch.  Vintage (?) blowmold Uncle Sam.  

~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA ~

We are truly blessed to live in the greatest nation on earth and I am thankful each and every day to be so lucky.  

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Lauren

Liberty fini ~

 

Can you believe only two more days until our great Nation's 250th???  It seems like it has suddenly crept up on me.  Not like I didn't know it was coming 😁

I did finish Liberty.  Woo hoo.  Two more patriotic pieces in the works, but I am happy I got this one done.  Steamed and bound.  The label will come later.

On the dining room stepback cupboard.

I know everyone is dealing with the heat.  I like summer, but this is too stinkin' hot!!!  

The birds have been enjoying the birdbath.  It needs a good cleaning, but it doesn't seem to bother them.

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Lauren