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What's New at Arcadia
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.
Announcements
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."
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Caskets and Coffins
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Saturday, 13 December 2008 |
The Non Fur-Lined PETA Coffin, Dying for Animal Rights
By Tina Sims
One slogan on a PETA coffin in particular, plays on a long-running ad, "Told You I Wouldn't Be Caught Dead in Fur!" Are you dying to support the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the little critters they protect? There is one way to show your undying love (sort of) a PETA coffin. While many people get buried in their coffins with their favorite sports team, how many will go for the PETA themed long rest?
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Historic Cemetery
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Saturday, 13 December 2008 |
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By C. J. HUGHES
New York -- Knowing that Grant’s Tomb is really a mausoleum solves the age-old head-scratcher about who’s buried there. (Ulysses S. and his wife, Julia, lie above ground, so no one is.) If only cracking the case of Charlotte Temple’s grave marker were as easy. Tucked inside the graveyard of Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan, it is a weathered brownstone slab about the size of a refrigerator. Carved across it in inch-tall letters is the name Charlotte Temple. At first glance, it seems like any tribute to the deceased.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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LONDON (AP) — Richard Van Allan, a British bass-baritone who was a commanding presence on the world's opera stages, has died at age 73. Van Allan died Dec. 4 in London, according to the National Opera Studio, which he directed from 1986 to 2001. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer two years ago, The Guardian newspaper reported. His roles included Pooh-Bah in Jonathan Miller's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" at English National Opera.
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Cemetery
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
By MARY SWIFT
ROSYLN, Wash. -- If you want an old-fashioned burial, Wesley Craven promises to be the last one to let you down. In fact, that's exactly what his business card - one that shows the broad-shouldered 71-year-old Craven wielding a pick ax - says. Craven is a gravedigger at the Cle Elum and Roslyn cemeteries, where those who want traditional burial go to their final resting place in graves that are still hand-dug.
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Burial
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
The Right to Bury One's Dead: The Letter and Spirit of the Law
For centuries, the right to bury one's dead without interference has been jealously guarded by humankind. Indeed, in Homer's Iliad, one of the most moving passages in ancient literature can be found, involving the legendary grief and despair of King Priam. The King was despondent over being deprived of the corpse of his young warrior son Hector, freshly killed by the vengeful Achilles. Eventually, King Priam received his son's body for a proper ceremonial burial. The parents described below were not so fortunate.
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Caskets and Coffins
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
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UK -- School children from Weavers Close Primary School in Earl Shilton have been treated to an exclusive look at the infamous stone coffin which was recently excavated at David Wilson East Midlands' Lanterns development on Candle Lane. The stone coffin, which some believe could be that of King Richard III, has attracted much media attention and even featured on BBC 1's The One Show. Since its excavation in November, the coffin has been looked after at David Wilson's development so that local schools could come and take a special look at this fascinating historic artefact.
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Eco-Friendly Burial
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
Idea of eco-friendly burials takes root and grows in Michigan
ByTanveer Ali and Nathan Hurst
WYANDOTTE -- Pushing daisies is getting greener. As more Americans look for ways to reduce their impact on the environment during their lives, many also are looking at ways to do the same in death. They're turning to options that allow them to pass on without the toxic trail left by cremation or the earth-altering effects of a tradition burial. And while they're saving the environment, they're also saving money.
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Cemetery
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 |
A stroll through a graveyard can reveal previously unknown information about ancestors
By Jeff Long When the weather isn't too raw, genealogist Craig Pfannkuche often can be found exploring cemeteries, a preferred place for digging up arcane facts about the dead. Children who died, former wives not mentioned in family stories, dates and causes of death omitted from newspaper clippings—sometimes such key details are revealed during a stroll through a graveyard, he said.
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Famous Graves
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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MOSCOW -- Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II, who died of cardiac insufficiency last Friday at the age of 79, has been buried in Moscow’s Epiphany Cathedral. Earlier in the day, a major requiem service was held in the Cathedral of the Savior, located in downtown Moscow in a stone’s throw from the Kremlin. Requiem liturgies and prayers were chanted there for 60 hours since Saturday afternoon when the coffin with the Patriarch’s body was delivered there from his residence in a southwest suburb of Moscow.
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Tri-State Crematory
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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Georgia has dismissed its case against Clara and LaShea Marsh, mother and sister of Brent Marsh, their attorney said late Monday. The two women were charged with improperly signing death certificates. The charges were part of the investigation into Brent Marsh, former operator of the Tri-State Crematory in Rock Spring, in which he did not cremate 334 bodies over a six-year period between 1996 and 2002. He is serving a 12-year sentence.
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Historic Cemetery
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
By Kamala Lane
ARLINGTON, Va. — The eight vaults housing the cremated remains of veterans and their spouses at Arlington National Cemetery may not be as familiar as the seemingly endless rows of white headstones. But more than half of the cemetery’s services are now for cremated remains — and with limited burial space, the cemetery is making room for more.
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Media Reviews
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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Patricia Cornwell returns to form in 'Scarpetta' and funds real-life science.
By Sarah Weinman
Patricia Cornwell's name comes with more than a whiff of myth and expectation. Almost every woman writing thrillers with extreme violence gets compared to Cornwell's bestselling work featuring forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta. Interviews focus less on the books and more on Cornwell's Armani suits, personal security concerns or her obsession with solving the Jack the Ripper murders. And the publishing industry's current grim fortunes lend an air of urgency to last week's publication of "Scarpetta."
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Interment Errors
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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By Dennis Woltering
AVONDALE, La. -- Members of the Garza family gathered a distance away as their mother Sadie's casket was removed from a vault at the Restlawn Park Cemtery and Mausoleum in Avondale. They were there for an exhumation, to see if the operators of the cemetery had placed their father Antonio's body in the coffin with their mother.
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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
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Kansas is home to one Presidential gravesite, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Quote Repository
“The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.” Ernest Becker
Grave Epigrams
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Frail as the leaves that quiver on the spray Like them man flourishes, like them decays. |
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Taphophilia Thanks
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