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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."
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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Marian McQuade dies at 91
Celebrity Deaths
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Marian McQuade, an advocate of care for the elderly who founded National Grandparents Day after years of petitioning governors, members of Congress and presidents to support her cause, has died. She was 91. McQuade, who had 43 grandchildren, died Friday of heart failure at a nursing home in Hilltop, W.Va., her daughter D.J. McQuade Lancaster said.
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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 
 
Ronald Kornblum, dies at 74
Celebrity Deaths
Sunday, 28 September 2008
Coroner to the stars, Ronald Kornblum, dies at 74

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ronald N. Kornblum, a former Los Angeles County coroner who performed autopsies on such celebrities as John Belushi, Natalie Wood and Truman Capote, has died. He was 74. Kornblum served eight years as county coroner before resigning in 1990 amid charges of poor management. He died Tuesday at his home in La Canada Flintridge after a long illness, his family said.

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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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An old-world sense of wonder
Strange and Unusual
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
In search of the strange and wonderful? All things are considered at these 10 U.S. shops and museums with a curiosity-cabinet theme.

By Pam Grossman for MSN City Guides

So far this century has been a sleek and shiny age marked by clean lines and minimalist décor (Apple store, anyone?)  While white plastic gadgets have captured many a heart, sometimes I long for a time when clutter was a sign of abundance and extravagance was king.  After all, in the 17th century, you wouldn’t have been an aristocrat worth your salt unless your home had a dedicated display case (or better yet, an entire room) crowded with a collection of marvelous objects accumulated over the years. Called “cabinets of curiosities” – or wunderkammern – these personal exhibits paid homage to the wonders and mysteries of the world.  A typical curiosity cabinet might have included zoological specimens, geological rarities, anatomical aberrations, and exceptional works of art, all juxtaposed in a visual melee designed to set the viewer’s jaw dropping and eyes agog.
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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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Couple tie the knot at funeral home
Strange and Unusual
Tuesday, 02 September 2008
Rachael Storm, the bride, said the location did ‘not creep me out at all’

It generally has flowers, and a clergyman is often present, but this was a first for a local funeral home. Jason and Rachael Storm held their wedding at Starks and Menchinger Family Funeral Home, where he is a funeral director. Their reception, including dinner and dancing, also was held at the funeral home.
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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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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.
 

Taphophiles Speak

Final Destination After Cremation?
 
Roadside Memorials...
 
What is your favorite type of cemetery?
 
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Quote Repository

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

Alexander Pope

Grave Epigrams

Sweet spirit thou hast soared from earth,
And seraphs hail thy heavenly birth;
Thou will one guardian angel be,
Until we rise to dwell with thee.

 

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