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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.

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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.

Biomedical Tissue Services

Articles about a tissue procurement company called Biomedical Tissue Services, founded by Michael Mastromarino. The New Jersey-based company is accused of illegally harvesting body parts from funeral homes across the city and selling them for big profits.

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Date Item Title
December 13, 2008 Guilty verdict in upstate NY body-parts trial
June 12, 2008 Scandal Rocks Human Tissue Industry
March 25, 2008 Witness: Thieves Changed Corpse's Names To Hide Crime
March 19, 2008 Michael Mastromarino pleads guilty in US body snatchers' case
February 27, 2008 Body Parts Boss Can Plead Guilty in NY
October 12, 2007 Judge refuses gag order in body-parts case
October 05, 2007 Five facing charges in body-parts scam
September 26, 2007 Stolen bones allegedly transplanted
February 07, 2007 Who Owns Your Body Parts?
January 11, 2007 Bass turns to own research for tissue-harvesting case
October 03, 2006 Embalmer blamers partner in corpse plunderings
June 19, 2006 Alistair Cooke: Revered in life but deserted in death
June 13, 2006 Two funeral homes in body-parts scandal are shut down
June 13, 2006 Jury to get body parts probe
June 10, 2006 New allegations against man accused in body-parts scam
May 16, 2006 The mysterious affair of the burial of Alistair Cooke
March 19, 2006 Inside Bowels of Gory Cadaver Scheme
March 17, 2006 Manhattan funeral home under review in stolen body parts probe
March 12, 2006 N.Y. funeral home accused of cashing in on cadaver body parts
January 25, 2006 Patients Nationwide May Have Received Stolen Tissue
December 25, 2005 NYC Authorities Probe Theft of Body Parts!
November 06, 2005 Tissue Implants in Canada May Have Come From Bodies Taken From Funeral Homes
November 06, 2005 Brooklyn Funeral Home Sold Body Parts
 
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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

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-189