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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.

Lionel Mark Smith, acted in Mamet plays, dies at 62 in California PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 03 March 2008
LOS ANGELES—Lionel Mark Smith, a stage, movie and TV actor who was a regular in David Mamet's productions, has died. He was 62. Smith died of cancer at his Inglewood home on Feb. 13, a friend, Paula Fins, told the Los Angeles Times. "He never made anything up, he always told the truth, and every scene and every project was better for his presence," Mamet wrote the newspaper. Smith appeared in seven Mamet films and many of his plays, including one production that created a controversy in Los Angeles.

Mamet's "Oleanna," about a university professor who is accused of sexual harassment, was to debut at the downtown Mark Taper Forum in 1994 but stalled when Mamet insisted that Smith play the professor.

Taper officials considered Smith an unknown and were concerned that he would be unable to carry the play. Smith, who is black, and Mamet suggested that racism was involved.

Smith did appear in another local production of "Oleanna" in a smaller theater.

Smith was born in Chicago in 1946.

"My father was a heroin dealer and my mother died of alcoholism. . . . I had to think my way out of the ghetto," Smith told the Times in 1994.

His three-decade movie career included dozens of mainly minor appearances in movies and TV shows, including "Days of Our Lives" and "The Unit." His last role was as a homeless man in last year's movie comedy, "Stuck."

He had no immediate survivors

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8450564?nclick_check=1

 
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