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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.

Arvada Cemetery Gets Hit By Vandals PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 16 August 2006
By Suzanne McCarroll
(CBS4) ARVADA, Colo. A place of rest became a playground for vandals as they toppled tombstones and left liquor bottles throughout the cemetery Tuesday night. About 100 headstones were either turned over or broken at the Arvada Cemetery on Independence Street.

Relatives whose families are buried at the cemetery were stunned to learn about the vandalism.

"I noticed my grandma's stone was knocked over," said Rene Mattek whose mother and grandmother are buried at the cemetery. "These are people that we love and people that we come up here to grieve and to spend time with and for somebody who doesn't know these people to come up here and destroy things we have put up here for that reason."

The cemetery opened in 1863 and has had occasional problems with trespassers, but workers said they've never seen anything like this before.

"Some of them are easily put back into place and some of them are very difficult because their old and big and heavy," said Warren Cobb from Arvada Cemetery.

Mattek said her grandma Dottie would be horrified by what happened.

"These people mean so much to me," Mattek said. "They're my family."

Mattek said she will bury her stepfather along side them later next week.

The cemetery is left unlocked at night so that police cruisers can check it but no one else is supposed to be there after sunset.

Police didn't have any suspects but were still investigating.

http://cbs4denver.com/local/local_story_200222040.html
 
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