ide crosses, as tangibleРevidence of extremely personal pain, inevitably affects an entireРcommunity. As centerpieces of fragile, dynamic memorial assem-Рblages, such crosses are only now being examined as more thanРincidental specks in the cultural landscape of certain groups. AРunique form of public, belief-centered material culture, roadsideРaccident markers occupy a rare place not only in the realm ofРroadside attractions, but in the cognitive map of the individual, aРuniqueness that renders them extra-legal, or “outlaw” and almostРuntouchable markers of liminal space. They represent the con-Рtinuation and adaptation of one of the oldest forms of memorialРculture.Р The word “memorial” may first bring to mind civil structures,Рsuch as the Lincoln and Vietnam Veterans Memorials in theР 1
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