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		<title>Early New England Stonecutters–J.N.</title>
		<link>https://symbolism.magnoliasandpeaches.com/2026/07/early-new-england-stonecutters-j-n/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[J.N. Possibly John Noyes, Silversmith &#8220;J.N.&#8221; was the first New England carver to use peacocks. His work utilized highly sophisticated engravings which also ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Early New England Stonecutters&#8211;Henry Christian Geyer and son John Just Geyer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim Jacobson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Henry Christian Geyer and son John Just Geyer Henry Christian Geyer was born in Germany 1727 and emigrated to America in the Mid-1700s. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Early New England Stone Cutters&#8211;Joseph Lamson (1658-1722)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim Jacobson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Joseph Lamson was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1658, the son of William and Sarah (Ayers) Lamson. Joseph Lamson&#8217;s early designs suggest he ]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Imps of Death</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim Jacobson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Imps of Death&#8221; were part of Puritan New England tombstone imagery from about 1680-1712. They were frequently accompanied with an hourglass, coffins, ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Story Stones: Knights of the Whip</title>
		<link>https://symbolism.magnoliasandpeaches.com/2023/10/story-stones-knights-of-the-whip/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim Jacobson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 21:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[C &#38; O Stage, also known as California and Oregon Stage, was the largest stagecoach operation in the region until the railroad marked ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stone Portraits</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim Jacobson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stone portraits were popular in early New England from roughly the mid 1700&#8217;s to the mid-1800s. James Blachowicz&#8217;s meticulous study captured in his ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Parables in Bas Relief</title>
		<link>https://symbolism.magnoliasandpeaches.com/2022/05/parables-in-bas-relief/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim Jacobson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 19:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While religious iconography is fairly common in the cemetery, tombstones with a bas relief depiction of a Bible story are somewhat unusual. The ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shell Babies AKA &#8220;Babies on the Half-Shell&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://symbolism.magnoliasandpeaches.com/2022/05/shell-babies-aka-babies-on-the-half-shell/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim Jacobson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 16:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shell babies were popular in the early 1900s as they could easily be ordered from catalogs. They emerged in the United States as ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Victorian Rustic</title>
		<link>https://symbolism.magnoliasandpeaches.com/2022/04/victorian-rustic/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim Jacobson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Treestones were a product of the Victorian Rustic era and were popular funerary monuments from the 1880s until the early 1930s. Together with ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cemetery Symbolism&#8211;Plants</title>
		<link>https://symbolism.magnoliasandpeaches.com/2022/02/cemetery-symbolism-plants/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kim Jacobson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[broken stem]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Plants are a very common motif on tombstones throughout the world, though their meanings are not always so obvious. A small selection of ]]></description>
		
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