The Simple Beauty of Fieldstone Grave Markers
Walking through a quiet, overgrown cemetery, you can't help but notice how fieldstone grave markers seem to belong to the earth in a way modern granite just doesn't. They aren't polished to a mirror shine, and they certainly don't have laser-etched portraits of the deceased. Instead, they're often just rough-hewn pieces of the local landscape—granite, limestone, or sandstone—plucked from a nearby field or creek bed and set into the ground to mark a life. ...