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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.

RD Glossary

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PALL
The transportation of the deceased by a coffin or casket, also used to describe the cloth used to drape the casket or coffin.
PALLBEARER
an individual appointed to carry a coffin or casket during transportation of the body, traditionally considered an honor, six people are to be asked by the family to provide this final caring act for the deceased
PHASMOPHOBIA
the fear of ghosts
PHILATORY
a transparent reliquary to contain and exhibit the bones and relics of saints.
PLACOPHOBIA
a phobia, specifically the fear of tombstones
PNEUMATIPHOBIA
a phobia, specifically the fear of spirits
POLYANDRIUM
originally a cemetery for the victims of great battles
PROTECTIVE CASKET
A marketing angle used by the funeral industry to sell a higher profit casket model by advertisting its ability to "seal" and protect the remains inside. The model features an inexpensive gasket that will render the box to be airtight., and create the illusion of a preserved body. In reality, the body will deteriorate at faster rate due to the decomposition by anaerobic bacteria, which causes putrefied liquification of the body.
PYRE
a ceremonial construction made of wood and fire, designed to reduce a corpse to ashes as part of the burial ritual, used traditionally in the Hindu religion

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