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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.

Employee who stole bones pleads guilty PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 15 September 2004
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WOODLAND, Calif. -- A former autopsy assistant who told police he stole human body parts from a medical center in part to practice his dissection skills pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property. David Lawrence Beale, 46, also pleaded guilty Friday to drug possession and a misdemeanor count of unlawful disposal of human remains.

The former employee at the University of California Medical Center in Davis faces up to three years and eight months in state prison at an Oct. 25 sentencing, Deputy District Attorney James Walker said.

Police suspected homicide in June last year when a tip led them to human remains in the trash at a Davis trailer park where Beale once lived.

The discovery gained national attention when lawyers for Modesto resident Scott Peterson traveled there to search for evidence that Peterson's wife, Laci, had been killed by a satanic cult.




Investigators eventually recovered 157 pounds of remains, including two well-preserved heads Beale said came from bodies donated to science. Microscopes, dissecting tools and preservatives were also seized.

Beale is being sued by relatives of Osie K. Whitten, whose skull was found in a bag on Beale's property. Whitten's family claims Beale and the medical center were negligent in handling his remains. Whitten died in 1990 and donated his body to the medical center for research.

Davis is 75 miles northeast of San Francisco.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Bones%20Discovered
 
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