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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.

300 bronze vases stolen from cemetery recovered PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
September 13, 2006
CAROL ROBINSON
News staff writer

A man was arrested after he tried to sell 300 bronze cemetery vases at a scrap metal business. Investigators arrested 50-year-old Eddie Davis and recovered 300 vases from a crawlspace at his home.

They believe the vases were stolen from Sunrise Cemetery sometime between Aug. 30 and Sept. 4.
Davis, an employee at another cemetery, was arrested Friday and is being held in the county jail. 

"When you think about it, that's 300 graves so that's 300 families affected," Jefferson County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Randy Christian said Tuesday. "That's a place really where people go to talk to loved ones, pray, dress up their graves or just talk to them.

"I don't know if he understood the amount of people he hurt, but I hope the judge will consider that when it comes to sentencing."

Officials launched their investigation after a 79-year-old woman went to visit her husband's grave and discovered the missing vase which screws into the concrete. She noticed others were missing too, and knew they had been stolen. The woman called Sheriff Mike Hale to ask for help.

Detectives canvassed Birmingham area scrap metal companies. A woman selling aluminum cans at one of the businesses asked deputies if they were there about the stolen vases she had heard about in news reports. She said she saw a man with a wheelbarrow full of them the previous day at a different business.

Deputies talked to that business owner who said he, too, knew they were stolen and refused to buy them. The business owner had a surveillance videotape which showed the man's license plate.

The truck was registered to Forest Hills Cemetery. Workers there called in the employee who used that vehicle.

"As soon as he saw our detectives, he just hung his head and said, `I know why you're here,"` Christian said.

Davis led authorities to the stash of stolen vases in the crawl space under his house. They were returned to Sunrise Cemetery.

Davis is charged with first-degree receiving stolen property. Christian said he has a history of burglary and theft charges dating back to 1977.

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1158139750164270.xml&coll=2
 
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