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Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark

Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

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Arrete! C'est ici L'Empire de la Mort -- "Stop! This is the Empire of Death."
Teen death song pioneer Reynolds dies
Celebrity Deaths
Tuesday, 18 November 2008

PALM DESERT, California (AP) -- Ralph Joseph "Jody" Reynolds, the rockabilly singer and songwriter whose lone hit "Endless Sleep" in the 1950s ushered in a wave of tragic teen pop songs, has died. He was 75. Reynolds, who was inducted into Nashville's Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1999, died November 7 in Palm Desert, said his musician friend Alan Clark, who toured with Reynolds in the 1980s.

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Ancient graves yield clues to family relationships
Ancient Burial
Monday, 17 November 2008
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

WASHINGTON (AP) - A stone-age burial in central Germany has yielded the earliest evidence of people living together as a family. The 4,600-year-old grave contained the remains of a man, woman and two youngsters, and DNA analysis shows they were a mother, father and their children.  "Their unity in death suggests unity in life," researchers said in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While tools and remains from the stone age have long been studied, there are few clues to the social relationships between people.  
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More room on top
Burial
Friday, 14 November 2008
More room on top - lack of space brings in the doubledecker grave

By Fiona Hamilton, London Correspondent

The disturbance of human remains in burial grounds is to be allowed for the first time since the early Victorian era to deal with a shortage of graves, The Times has learnt. Under a test scheme to begin in the new year, local authorities across the country will be allowed to exhume remains and rebury them deeper to create space for further burials on top. In some cases, new inscriptions will be added to the existing headstone to ensure that the heritage of the grave is not destroyed. Damaged or insignificant headstones would be removed and replaced with only the new name.
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Makeshift grave in cemetery held fetus
Discovery
Friday, 14 November 2008

INDIANA -- Police say a fetus was buried in a makeshift grave found by University of Indianapolis students who were researching an old cemetery on the south side of Indianapolis. The small grave included a marker with "Baby Wheeler" written on it.

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'Jurassic Park' author, 'ER' creator Crichton dies
Celebrity Deaths
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Crichton, who helped create the TV show "ER" and wrote the best-sellers "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain," "Sphere" and "Rising Sun," has died in Los Angeles, his public relations firm said in a news release. Crichton died unexpectedly Tuesday "after a courageous and private battle against cancer," the release said. He was 66.
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Ex-Motown president Jheryl Busby dies at 59
Celebrity Deaths
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Jheryl Busby, the former president and chief executive of Motown Records who helped foster the careers of Boyz II Men and Johnny Gill, has died. He was 59. Busby was found early Tuesday in a hot tub at his home in Malibu, California, said Los Angeles County Assistant Coroner Chief Ed Winter. "It was a possible accident or else he died of natural causes," Winter said.
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'Peruvian Songbird' Yma Sumac dies
Celebrity Deaths
Monday, 03 November 2008
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Yma Sumac, the Peruvian-born soprano who wowed international audiences in the 1950s with her stunning vocal range and modern take on South American folk music, has died. Sumac died Saturday at an assisted-living home in Los Angeles after an eight-month bout with colon cancer, Sumac's friend and personal assistant Damon Devine said Monday. Few biographical details are clear about the reclusive, raven-haired songstress. She was surrounded by rumors about her life and origins, many of them myths of her own making.
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New Age pioneer, author Marilyn Ferguson dies
Celebrity Deaths
Sunday, 02 November 2008

BANNING, California (AP) -- Marilyn Ferguson, whose best-selling book "The Aquarian Conspiracy" helped establish the New Age movement by tying together its disparate threads, has died. She was 70. Ferguson died October 19 at her home in western Riverside County. She is believed to have died of a heart attack, her son, Eric, told the Los Angeles Times. "The Aquarian Conspiracy," published in 1980, was the first comprehensive analysis of the various unconnected efforts -- such as scientists investigating biofeedback, midwives running alternative birthing centers, and a Christian evangelist promoting meditation -- that would coalesce into the New Age movement.

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Acclaimed author Studs Terkel dies at 96
Celebrity Deaths
Saturday, 01 November 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, radio host and activist Studs Terkel died in his Chicago, Illinois, home Friday at the age of 96. Terkel had grown frail since the publication last year of his memoir, "Touch and Go," said Gordon Mayer, vice president of the Community Media Workshop, which Terkel had supported. "I'm still in touch, but I'm ready to go," he said last year at his last public appearance with the workshop, a nonprofit that recognizes Chicago reporters who take risks in covering the city.
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The Autograph Alternative: Human Hair
Memorabilia
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Collectors are bidding up the bounty on keepsake locks of the deceased and famous

By Alex Kingsbury

Luis Mushro's business is pieces of famous people. He sells increasingly smaller and smaller slivers of their hair on eBay, often for several hundred dollars per strand. "Hair is a thing of beauty; it never fades yet it symbolizes growth," says the Michigan collector, who has been hocking historical hair from the heads of Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe, and John Lennon since 1992. It might sound strange, but hair can carry a hefty price tag. Last week, an auction house in Dallas sold some strands of hair collected from Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the slain Argentine socialist revolutionary, for $100,000.

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Muldoon: A True Chicago Ghost Story
Media Reviews
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Muldoon A True Chicago Ghost Story: Tales of a Forgotten Rectory
By Daniel J. Facchini And Rocco A. Facchini

These are the untold stories of the last days of a forgotten Chicago parish by the last person able to tell them: Fresh out of the seminary in 1956, Father Rocco Facchini was appointed to his first assignment, the parish of Saint Charles Borromeo on the city's Near West Side. Adapting to rectory life with an unorthodox, dispirited pastor and attending to the needs of the rough, impoverished neighborhood were challenges in themselves. Little did Rocco know that the rectory was being haunted by a bishop's ghost!

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Chicago Haunts: Ghostlore of the Windy City
Media Reviews
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Chicago Haunts: Ghostlore of the Windy City
By Ursula Bielski

From ruthless gangsters to restless mail order kings, from the Fort Dearborn Massacre to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the phantom remains of the passionate people and volatile events of Chicago history have made the Second City second to none in the annals of American ghostlore.
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Guardians of the Soul
Media Reviews
Friday, 24 October 2008
"Guardians of the Soul: Angels and innocents, mourners and saints--Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture

A new book with photography by John Bower and a foreword by Claude Cookman"

PREVIEW GUARDIANS OF THE SOUL !

Guardians of the Soul is a book about history, beauty, and love—the history of the monuments and the people they honor, the exquisite beauty of the hand-crafted sculpture, but, most of all, this is a book about the enduring love these magnificent statues of marble, granite, limestone, zinc, and bronze represent. Guardians of the Soul contains 188 moving photographs by Hoosier photographer, John Bower. The photos in Guardians of the Soul were taken in over 200 cemeteries, large and small, scattered all across Southern Indiana—that part of the state lying south of U.S. 40, the old National Road.

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

Taphophilia Facts

New York is home to six Presidential gravesites, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
 

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Quote Repository

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Harold Wilson

Grave Epigrams

In prosp'rous life, he felt deaths heavy stroke
Yet, calmly bow'd to what the Lord had spoke;
And left the church, a wife & children dear;
To mourn their loss while he's no longer hear.

1792

 

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