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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.

Digging deep into the past PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 28 May 2004
The Blue Water Bridge plaza in Point Edward was an important trade site thousands of years before NAFTA. The point of land where Lake Huron meets the St. Clair River was a gathering place for members of the Aamjiwnaag First Nation to hunt and trade.

"This area is one of the richest archaeological sites in North America," said Dan Elash, president of Canada's Blue Water Bridge Authority. "When we dig holes in the ground, it is not unusual to find artifacts, whether it's pottery or bones from fish or even burial sites."

Whenever the authority needs to dig another hole, Ontario law requires it contract a licensed archaeology firm to preserve any artifacts that might be destroyed by the construction.

One such excavation is under way at the future site of the Ontario Travel Information Centre on Venetian Boulevard, which must be moved to make way for a new truck ramp. A team, comprised mostly of students from the University of Western Ontario in London working for Heritage Archaeology Consultants of London, has been digging there since fall. The project nearly is complete.

Previous digs near the Duty Free Shop turned up evidence of ancient settlements, including human remains. Nothing like that has been found during the current excavation -- only fish bones and arrowheads, some from as far away as present-day Kentucky.

"If there's anything of significance found, it is catalogued and a report is written," Elash said, "and all that material will end up in a university so some graduate students can write papers on it."

http://www.thetimesherald.com/news/stories/20040528/localnews/523285.html
 
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