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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.

Burglars Finding Easy Pickings At Graveyards PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 08 December 2008
RANCHO PALOS VERDES ― Burglars nationwide have found easy pickings at cemeteries, where unattended cars are sitting ducks while the occupants are at gravesides, it was reported Saturday. The Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes has had 10 reported vehicle burglaries in the last two years, according to the L.A. Sheriff's Department reports. The most common tactic was for thieves to either smash a window or enter unlocked cars to swipe the property inside.
Although most of the thieves escape, deputies arrested three males two years ago after they took a purse from an unlocked van on cemetery grounds.

"Their biggest ploy of late is to follow funeral services in with the idea that everybody is going to walk away from their cars and be anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour," Ray Frew, Green Hills' president told the Daily Breeze. "They just see it as a golden opportunity because everybody is going to a grave site."

Green Hills is not alone. In January 2007, there were 10 vehicle burglaries at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.

In September, thieves raided the cars of people visiting graves in Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie, Ill.

In July, police in Pawtucket, R.I., reported three vehicle break-ins at St. Francis Cemetery., and, in June, police in San Antonio reported nine break-ins at San Fernando Cemetery this year,
following 16 in 2007.

A $5,000 reward was posted in Houston in March after more than 30 vehicle burglaries occurred in Harris County cemeteries.

A cemetery in Rancho Palos Verdes thought that a security guard would protect against theft but keeping watch of the 120-acre Green Hills cemetery proved futile given the property's size. The guard was let go about a month ago.

"Unfortunately, we have 120 acres and we have as many as six or seven burials on average a day here," Frew told the Daily Breeze. "It didn't seem to matter how much the person was cruising around."

Instead, the approximately 30 workers conducting maintenance and burial on the grounds are asked to keep watch. When deputies made the arrests in 2006, cemetery employees chased after the culprits and called police.

"It really is sick," Frew told the Daily Breeze. "But (thieves) figure it's a crime of opportunity."


http://cbs2.com/local/cemetary.graveyard.burglars.2.881495.html
 
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