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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.
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Documenting Another Serial Killer |
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
Having profiled in documentary form the exploits of early American serial killers H.H. Holmes and Albert Fish, filmmaker John Borowski is now moving on to Carl Panzram. Hung in 1930 for killing a Leavenworth prison guard, here’s what serial killer Carl Panzram had to say about his previous criminal deeds: ‘In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings,’
Panzram wrote as part of his autobiography, begun in 1928 and published in book form in 1970. ‘For all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not worry me. I don’t believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damned human race including myself.’
Panzram’s journals also chronicled episodes of juvenile home and prison brutality, another aspect of the story to be covered in the 2008 feature length documentary planned by John Borowski (Albert Fish, H.H. Holmes). The film will be produced by Mark Berry, L.A. editor for Bizarre Magazine.
The Minnesota native was never at a loss for words. When it came time to be meet his maker, Panzram spat in the face of his executioner and exclaimed, ‘Hurry up you bastard! I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around.’
Coinciding with the current pandemic of police brutality, filmmaker John Borowski announces lifelong prisoner Carl Panzram as the subject of his upcoming feature film, which is slated to begin production in 2008.
Panzram will examine the entire life and death of the serial killer, who revealed himself to be an intelligent, introspective and thought-provoking writer through autobiographical papers secretly passed to a humanitarian prison guard. The story of American prisoner Panzram is “an indictment of various early U.S. state prison’s use of brutal violence and torture,” says Borowski.
Though a recent spike of media coverage has heightened awareness of police brutality, the U.S. has a lengthy history of corporal punishment that some consider a stain on the country’s penal institutional record.
Carl Panzram was a lifelong prisoner and a hate-filled serial killer. Brutalized in and out of various U.S. state prisons during 20th century America, Panzram unleashed a rampage of revenge that resulted in over 20 murders and countless acts of violent sodomy. A single act of kindness, by prison guard Henry Lesser, sparked a friendship that eventually influenced Panzram to write his autobiography. In 1930, Panzram was hanged for killing a prison guard.
Panzram marks the third feature film for producer/writer/director John Borowski. The award-winning filmmaker has achieved international acclaim for his provocative documentaries on early American serial killers H.H. Holmes and Albert Fish. Information and limited collector edition posters are at the film's official website, www.panzram.com.
http://www.filmstew.com/showArticle.aspx?ContentID=16607
http://www.ohmygore.com/newsuk-3773-Serial-Killer-Carl-Panzram-Subject-of-Film.html
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