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Cemetery Snapshot What's New at ArcadiaHistoric Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. KnoblockArcadia 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. AnnouncementsQuoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. NewstokAn 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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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 Taphophiles SpeakQuote Repository“Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.” |
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