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Tombstone tourists have a new guidebook PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Monday, 01 November 2004
October 31, 2004

GUILFORD, Conn. (AP) - It's Halloween: Are you afflicted with taphophilia?

If you're one of those people who likes to wander around old graveyards, taking pictures and reading the tombstone inscriptions of long-dead strangers, then the answer is yes. Now there's a new book to help guide you in your cemetery wanderings. ``Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries,'' by Lisa Rogak, is just out from Globe Pequot Press ($14.95).

The book will direct you to ``Authors' Ridge,'' in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, Mass., where you can pay your respects to Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Or if you find yourself on the Blue Hill Peninsula on the southern coast of Maine, take a detour to visit the grave of E.B. White, beloved author of ``Charlotte's Web'' and ``Stuart Little.'' He's buried in a small village cemetery in North Brooklin. In Bennington, Vt., you'll find the grave of poet Robert Frost, who wrote his own epitaph: ``I had a lover's quarrel with the world.''

But the book is not just about finding graves of famous people. It also shows how epitaphs and markers for the departed can provide windows into the stories, morals and sometimes even the strange humor of the past.

``I warn all friends, both old & young, Not to live life as I have done,'' reads the headstone for a 22-year-old buried in Mansfield, Conn. The Milford Cemetery in Connecticut includes the stone of Mary Fowler, who died in 1792 at age 24. Her epitaph reads: ``How soon she's ripe, how soon she's rotten, sent to her grave and soon forgotten.''

The book also showcases the graves of pets; Civil War and Revolutionary War soldiers; and slaves and freed blacks. In addition, ``Stones and Bones'' documents the elaborate stone carvings that grace late 19th- and early 20th-century graves in the Hope Cemetery in Barre, Vt., and the landscaping at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass., which began a 19th-century trend of ``garden cemeteries.''

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/travel/10061950.htm
 
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