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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.

Americas dead rich buy a tomb with a view PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 07 December 2004
Peter Beaumont
Sunday December 5, 2004
The Observer

Wealthy Americans seeking immortality now have the option of being reincarnated as a work of art.
For the sum of $300,000, aficionados of the great American architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright can be buried in one of the last of his works to be completed: the Blue Sky Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York. Designed 76 years ago and finally built 45 years after Wright's death, the mausoleum - which has 24 two-coffin crypts - represents either the ultimate transaction of style with the hereafter, or a supreme act of vanity.

The first crypt has been sold and negotiations are understood to be under way on others. Built on a gentle, tree-lined slope, the mausoleum features twin rows of 12 granite slabs that climb the lawn to meet on either side of a monolith.

Recalling the layered slabs of his prairie-style houses, the mausoleum is inscribed with a Wright quote expressing his intention for a 'burial facing the open sky'.

Opened to the public on a grey afternoon, the $1.2 million structure has already attracted sniffy remarks from architectural purists and guardians of the Wright legacy.

'This has been simplified from Wright's design, and it takes away some of the characteristics of the angular effects,' William Allin Storrer, author of the Wright companion, told The New Republic .

'You either build on the site, as the plans show, or forget calling it a Frank Lloyd Wright.'

Civic leaders have never hidden the fact that they regard the mausoleum as being as much about attracting tourists to Buffalo as commemoration. 'We have the opportunity to establish ourselves as a national destination for people who care about architecture,' said Assembly member Sam Hoyt at the opening.


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