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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.

Family Files Complaint in Organ Scandal PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Saturday, 20 October 2007
By DAVID GAMBACORTA

Rosalie Carter died of cancer at age 80 on Jan. 24, 2005, but she wasn't allowed to rest in peace for long. Carter's remains were entrusted to a Kensington crematory owned by three local funeral- home operators - Louis Garzone, his brother, Gerald Garzone, and James McCafferty - who were all in the morbid business of illegally harvesting body parts. Workers at Liberty Cremation Inc. falsified Carter's death certificate to make it appear that she was younger and healthier when she died, and promptly went to work harvesting her tissue, according to court documents obtained by the Daily News.

Attorneys Lawrence R. Cohan and Melissa Fry Hague filed a civil complaint in Common Pleas Court yesterday on behalf of Carter's son against McCafferty, the Garzone brothers and other key figures in the national body-parts scandal.

Carter's son, William, learned about a year-and-a-half after she died that his mother's body had been harvested at Liberty Cremation .

"I'm not sure you can measure just how distressed the victims' families are," Cohan said.

Earlier this month, a Philadelphia grand jury indicted McCafferty, 37, of Frankford; Louis Garzone, 65, of Kensington; Gerald Garzone, 47, of North Wales, Montgomery County; the alleged national ringleader, Michael Mastromarino, 44, of Fort Lee, N.J.; and Lee Cruceta, 34, of Monroe, N.Y.

According to the grand jury, McCafferty and the Garzone brothers pocketed nearly $250,000 for stealing diseased body parts from the corpses of 244 Philadelphians and selling them to Mastromarino's company, Biomedical Tissue Services.

BTS resold the diseased tissue to four companies that processed it for hospitals. *

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20071020_Family_files_complaint_in_organ_scandal.html

 
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