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Author: Charles Chauncey Wells
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the most definitive book about Boston's North End Copp's Hill Burying Ground in 110 years. It describes the famous and interesting personages buired there, has a complete Boston Tea Party and Revolutionary War soldiers list, current tombstone inventory and complete maps.
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher:
Published: 2017-09-06
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781976143878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe collaboration of H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald on The Horror in the Burying-Ground. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Author: Joyce Hansen
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1998-04-15
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780805050127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn September 1991, archaeologists began to turn up graves and bodies in lower Manhattan. Well-known maps had shown that this was the site of New York's first burial ground for slaves and free blacks. "Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence" uses the rediscovery of the burial grounds as a window on a fascinating side of colonial history and as an introduction to the careful science that is uncovering all of the secrets of the past.
Author: Elizabeth Carpenter Piechocinski
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781891495090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Bard
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-02-15
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1445661128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUncovers the dark secrets of London's lost and forgotten burial places.
Author: J. W. Ocker
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Published: 2010-09-20
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1581578628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn insider’s guide to wicked, weird, and wonderful New England. A rich compendium of macabre and historic New England happenings, this travelogue features firsthand accounts of almost 200 sites throughout New England. This region is full of the macabre, the grim, and the ghastly—and all of it is worth visiting, for the traveler who dares! Author J. W. Ocker supplements directions and site information with entertaining personal anecdotes. Topics include: Legends and personalities of the macabre Infamous crimes and killers Dreadful tragedies Horror movie locales Notable cemeteries and gravestones Intriguing memento mori Classic monsters
Author: Henry Allen Hazen
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 650
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sylvia E. Thornbush
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Published: 2020-04-27
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9811441243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKhis interdisciplinary reference work presents a linked consideration, to the reader, of physical- cultural (physicocultural) representations of headstones located in urban churchyards in England and Scotland. The geomorphology of landscapes relevant to these locations is explained with the help of detailed case studies from Oxford and Edinburgh. The integrated physicocultural approach addresses the conservation of the archaeological record and presents a cross-temporal perspective of landscape change – of the headstones as landforms in their landscape (as part of deathscapes). The physical record (of headstones) is examined in the context of both cultural representation and change. In this way, an integrated approach is employed that connects the physical (natural) and cultural (social) records kept by historians and archeologists over the years. Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards is of interest to geomorphologists, historians and scholars interested in understanding landscaping studies and cultural nuance of specific historical urban sites in England and Scotland.
Author: Janet Kellough
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2015-07-11
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1459724720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSomeone is digging up the graves at the Strangers’ Burying Ground in Toronto — the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics — and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are unconcerned; after all, for years the growing village of Yorkville has been clamouring to have the bodies moved and the Burying Ground closed. The distraught Spicer enlists the aid of his old friend Thaddeus Lewis, who has unexpectedly returned to preaching on the Yonge Street Circuit. The graveyard’s secrets lead Lewis and his son Luke into the hidden heart of 1851 Toronto where they discover a trail of corruption and blackmail tied to an old sexual scandal and a dangerous enemy intent on vengeance.
Author: Marilyn Yalom
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2008-05-15
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0547345437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practices—featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalom, visit more than 250 cemeteries across the United States. Following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the historical pattern of American migration, their destinations highlight America’s cultural and ethnic diversity as well as the evolution of burials rites over the centuries. Yalom’s incisive reading of gravestone inscriptions reveals changing ideas about death and personal identity, as well as how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime, the unique burial rites and funerary symbols found in today’s Native American cultures, and a “lost” Czech community brought uncannily to life in Chicago’s Bohemian National Columbarium. From fascinating past to startling future—DVDs embedded in tombstones, “green” burials, and “the new aesthetic of death”—The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.
