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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.

Deadgirl Has Temporarily Arisen For A Quick Update PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 31 August 2005
I'm sure everyone has noticed that news postings have been scarce here recently, which is quite unusual for the site. Just for the record, your "News-Exhuming-Deadgirl" is not a slacker and hasn't become bored and abandoned you! I've have noticed that several of our well-known and respected site members have been making a valiant effort to step up and give me a hand with submissions. I'd like to thank Lolligoth, Mortuus, Perilous_Cheryl, QueenOfTheDead and our friendly "anonymous" submitter for being loyal to Taphophilia and posting such interesting news. You guys are great, and I appreciate the help! If I've neglected to mention any other person who helped, I apologize... I wanted to apologize for my lack of activity with Taph over the last couple of months. I am in the "limbo" process of moving. Most of our belongings are in portable storage, in local access storage or scattered throughout friends' garages. It will be a relief when our new home is ready in a few days, so my children and I will no longer be temporarily displaced and feel like refugees!

I would blame exhaustion for my absence, but that would be far from the truth. Let's just say "DIAL UP", which is fairly self-explanatory. I receive around 500 emails each day for Taph, and trying to access those has been quite an adventure and also very time consuming. For a short explanation about this, I have to download email into Outlook and then to respond, I have to use webmail. It's complicated, but it helps me to appreciate my Extreme DSL service more than ever, and it also makes me hate this certain dial up ISP that won't let me send email from other ISPs through their service!! (I won't mention any names!)

Things should be back to normal in a couple of weeks, once we get moved and settled in. I am looking forward to catching up with my Taph friends, posting in the forums and spending my spare time digging up news of the dead for the morbidly curious! Most of all I'm looking forward to grabbing my camera out of storage (or wherever I've put it for safekeeping, I forget) and heading for my favorite cemetery. I'm counting the days! Dark Day! Dead-tired Deadgirl
 
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