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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!

Green-Wood Cemetery Arcadia Publishing announces the release of Alexandra Mosca's 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 and to browse other available titles!


Men of Mortuaries Calendar
To purchase your 2008 calendar, learn more about the KAMMCARES Foundation, or to be featured in the 2009 calendar, please visit Men of Mortuaries.

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, Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture
with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman is now
available. Please visit
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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."
Graveyards of Chicago
Media Reviews
Saturday, 04 October 2008
Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries
By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski
Lake Claremont Press

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under Ever wonder where Al Capone is buried? How about Clarence Darrow? Muddy Waters? Harry Caray? Or maybe Brady Bunch patriarch Robert Reed? And what really lies beneath home plate at Wrigley Field? Graveyards of Chicago answers these and other cryptic questions as it charts the lore and lure of Chicago's ubiquitous burial grounds.
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Green-Wood Cemetery by Alexandra Mosca
Media Reviews
Saturday, 04 October 2008
Green-Wood Cemetery by Alexandra Mosco
Image of America Series
Arcadia Publishing

For generations, Green-Wood Cemetery has played an integral part in New York City’s cultural history, serving as a gathering place and a cultural repository. Situated in the historic borough of Brooklyn, the thousands of graves and mausoleums within the cemetery’s 478 acres are tangible links and reminders to key events and people who made New York City and America what it is today. The monuments read like a who’s who of American greatness and include the names of Leonard Bernstein, F. A. O. Schwarz, Charles L. Tiffany, Samuel Morse, and DeWitt Clinton, among others.
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Foot Stolen from Crash Site
Strange and Unusual
Saturday, 04 October 2008
FORT PIERCE, Fla

Investigators say St. Lucie County firefighters who knew a paramedic took a man's severed foot from a vehicle crash site may face disciplinary action. Authorities said Friday those who never reported the misconduct are being investigated. Cindy Economou resigned after admitting she took the foot to train her cadaver dog to locate and follow the scent of decomposing human flesh.

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Mt. Pleasant Walking Tour
Tourism
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
Newark, NJ

On Sunday, October 5th Jeffrey Bennett is  going to be leading a walking tour of an upper class, Victorian cemetery in Newark called Mt. Pleasant.  Mt. Pleasant is one of Newark’s two elite, Victorian Era Cemeteries. Except for the German-extraction Beer Barons, all of Newark’s 19th century elite lies interred in Mt. Pleasant. Come visit the Ballantines, the Kinneys, McCarters, Edward Weston, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Marcus Ward, Seth Boyden, John Fairfield Dryden, Franklin Murphy, Thomas B. Peddie, Charles Cummings and more in this cemetery where every family has a street named after it and every grave touching or artistic. The tour will meet at the front gates of the cemetery at 12:15 Sunday, October 5th. Parking is not available within the cemetery itself, but there is parking on the surrounding streets. The cost is $10 for first-time attendees. Since I want people to keep coming back, people who have already attended a tour do not need to pay, though I will accept a “donation.” For more information visit the website at http://www.newarkhistory.com/mtpleasantcemeterytour.html 
 
Lewiston, ID Project Updates
Taphophile Interests
Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Jenifer Junior High School and Lewiston High School's Project Update
Project Director: Steven D. Branting, Gifted & Innovative Programs, Independent School District No. 1

5th Street Cemetery Necrogeographical Study: Embalming Arsenic & Soil Leaching Survey at Pioneer Park

http://www.lewiston.k12.id.us/staff/sbranting/5thcem/5thcem.htm

Project Prospectus: (Adobe Reader required) http://www.lewiston.k12.id.us/staff/sbranting/5thcem/Proposal.pdf

 
Dalai Lama's brother dies
Celebrity Deaths
Thursday, 11 September 2008
By Robert King

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Mourners from around the country filed through the Tibetan Buddhist temple here Wednesday to bid farewell to a man they described as a friend, a freedom fighter and a high lama. Now they await his reincarnation, which they expect anytime. More than 100 people in a procession dropped yellow, blue and white silk blessing scarves at the feet of Thubten J. Norbu, a former Indiana University professor who was the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama.

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Remains of 3 sailors from Pearl Harbor identified
Military
Friday, 05 September 2008
By TIM FOUGHT

PORTLAND, Ore. - Two-thirds of a century ago, Kathleen Wyman drove her brother to California to join the Navy. From there, he shipped out to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor. He never came home. Ensign Eldon Wyman was 24 when he died in the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941. Along with hundreds of others, he was buried in mass graves, officially listed as unknowns. But Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the remains of Eldon Wyman and two other sailors had been identified, and their remains would be returned to their families.

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Family awarded $300,000 after casket crashes during transfer
Industry Lawsuits
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Relatives awarded $300,000 after casket broke apart during transfer to mausoleum
 
By Jon Murray

Indiana--Much as she tries, Linda Anderson-Hardwick can't forget what she saw, heard and smelled that day five years ago at a Greenwood cemetery. Her brother's cherry wood casket, interred more than a year earlier, broke apart as workers removed it from a mausoleum vault. A Marion Superior Court jury found Forest Lawn Memory Gardens negligent Wednesday and awarded $300,000 to four members of William Joseph Henry's family for their anguish.Anderson-Hardwick, 57, said the money would mean little if another family ever had to endure the same shock.

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Rampage hits rural cemetery
Vandalism
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
GREENSBURG, Ind. -- Authorities are trying to find out who toppled dozens of tombstones, some estimated to have weighed two tons, in a rural Decatur County cemetery. Some 30 to 40 gravestones were destroyed at the Shiloh Cemetery, said Decatur County Sheriff's Deputy Dave Henderson. Some dated from as early as the 1850s.
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Bones found in Anderson may be from 1800s
Bones
Wednesday, 20 August 2008

ANDERSON, Ind. -- Authorities say bones dug up by a work crew at a downtown Anderson intersection are human and might have been buried in the 19th century when the area was part of a graveyard. The remains were found Tuesday about 3 feet below the surface while workers replaced gas lines. Experts say the bones are consistent with a 19th century burial. The area was a cemetery from 1839 to 1863.

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Egypt tests DNA from fetuses in Tut’s tomb
Ancient Egypt
Wednesday, 06 August 2008
By Salah Nasrawi

CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they are the young pharaoh's offspring, Egyptian antiquity authorities said Wednesday. The two tiny female fetuses, between five to seven months in gestational age, were found in the King Tut's tomb in Luxor when the tomb was disovered by Howard Carter in 1922.

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Cause Of Death
Media Reviews
Friday, 04 July 2008
Cause of Death: A Perfect Little Guide to What Kills Us by Jack Mingo

Now you can add to your stack of Star Wars tomes a new volume of factoid porn from George Lucas Books called Cause of Death: A Perfect Little Guide to What Kills Us. Why is Lucas publishing this book full of stats about how many people die from bad breath (lots) vs. how many die from hormones (way more)? Apparently the guy just has death on his mind. Could this be a secret hint about certain events to come in the Clone Wars series and August movie?
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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

Kansas is home to one Presidential gravesite, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
 

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Quote Repository

When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Grave Epigrams

In faith he dy'd in Dust he lies,
But faith foresees that Dust shall rise,
When Jesus calls while hope assumes
And bursts her Joye among the tombs

1790

 

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