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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.

Syndicate

Arrete! C'est ici L'Empire de la Mort -- "Stop! This is the Empire of Death."
Mother, son plead guilty in home cremation
Trial Verdicts
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
RED BLUFF, Calif.—A woman accused of cremating her 84-year-old mother in her backyard has pleaded guilty to stealing her benefits and disposing her remains outside of a cemetery.
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On This Day: King Tut’s Tomb Discovered
Ancient Egypt
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
On Nov. 26, 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter made a small hole in a sealed doorway and, holding up a candle, shed light onto King Tutankhamen’s tomb in Luxor, Egypt, for the first time in more than 3,000 years.
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Poles exhume remains of wartime leader
Exhumation
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
By Jan Cienski 

Warsaw, Poland -- Polish prosecutors on Tuesday exhumed the body of wartime leader-in-exile Wladyslaw Sikorski from a vault in Krakow cathedral to try to determine whether he died in a 1943 air crash or was assassinated. General Sikorski, his country’s exiled prime minister and commander in chief while Poland was occupied by the Nazis, was killed on July 4, 1943 after the Liberator bomber in which he was flying crashed into the sea seconds after taking off from the British colony of Gibraltar.
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In the ground - or on display?
Exhibits
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Corpus conundrum: Could Body Worlds be your final resting place? Salt Lake City woman offers to be plastinated.

By Lisa Schencker

Most visitors barely notice the sign that hangs behind two human bodies -- stripped of skin and posed acrobatically -- in a corner of the Body Worlds exhibition. But Vanessa Bello, 27, pauses when she sees the sign, "Body Donation for Plastination." Bello recently registered to donate her body to the Institute for Plastination in hopes of one day joining the traveling exhibit, now at The Leonardo in Salt Lake City. The exhibit, which has attracted more than 100,000 visitors in Utah, consists of rooms full of preserved human bodies and body parts in glass cases displayed to educate visitors.

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New bust of 'Father' Dixon cast for Oakwood Cemetery
Restoration
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Dixon, IL -- After more than 100 years, "Father" Dixon's likeness was due for a facelift. Earlier this month, the Dixon family replaced the crumbling monument at Oakwood Cemetery with a new bronze bust of the city's founder.  The Italian marble high-relief bust of John Dixon, crafted around the turn of the 20th century, had long stood guard at the family gravesites. Weather had worn its soft stone features.
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Replica of Lincoln's casket coming to area
Exhibits
Monday, 24 November 2008
By CATHARINE HADLEY

FREMONT, OH -- Area historians will have the chance to view a replica of the casket in which President Abraham Lincoln was buried next month. Jason Kinn, co-owner and funeral director at the Herman-Kinn-Karlovetz Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 900 N. Front St., said the replica will be on display during an open house from 4 to 8 p.m. Dec. 11. The casket is one of five made 10 years ago by the Batesville Casket Company, modeled after the only known surviving photograph of the president lying in state in 1865.

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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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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

Tennessee is home to three Presidential gravesites, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson.
 

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Quote Repository

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt

Grave Epigrams

Here lie interred the dreadfully bruised and lacerated bodies of William Bradbury and Thomas, his son, both of Greenfield, who were together savagely murdered in an unusually horrid manner on Monday Night April 2, 1832:

Such and interest did their tragic end excite
That, ere they were removed from human sight,
Thousands on thousands daily came to see
The bloody scene of the catastrophe...

Saddleworth Church Graveyard
Yorkshire, England 1832

 

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