Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Index to Wood County Cemeteries: Town of Grand Rapids, Forest Hill Cemetery
Author: The Granite Cutters' Journal
Author: Marathon County, Wisconsin, Cemetery Inscriptions
Author: Jerome S. LundPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"This every-name index volume contains a coded list of 132 cemeteries, and a map of Marathon County Cemetery inscriptions"--Introduction.
The Natural Burial Cemetery Guide
Author: Ann HoffnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780989594608
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A guidebook for over 125 US cemeteries that offer green burial. Includes introductory material on green burial and photo illustrations. Detailed cemetery entries are color coded and grouped by region and state. 303 pages.
New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones
Author: Richard F. VeitPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813545668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
From the earliest memorials used by Native Americans to the elaborate structures of the present day, Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied use grave markers to take an off-beat look at New Jersey’s history that is both fascinating and unique. New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones presents a culturally diverse account of New Jersey’s historic burial places from High Point to Cape May and from the banks of the Delaware to the ocean-washed Shore, to explain what cemeteries tell us about people and the communities in which they lived. The evidence ranges from somber seventeenth-century decorations such as hourglasses and skulls that denoted the brevity of colonial life, to modern times where memorials, such as a life-size granite Mercedes Benz, reflect the materialism of the new millennium. Also considered are contemporary novelties such as pet cemeteries and what they reveal about today’s culture. To tell their story the authors visited more than 1,000 burial grounds and interviewed numerous monument dealers and cemetarians. This richly illustrated book is essential reading for history buffs and indeed anyone who has ever wandered inquisitively through their local cemeteries.
History of Hancock County, Indiana
Author: John H. BinfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greenfield (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
A History of Ontario County, New York and Its People
Author: Charles F. MillikenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ontario County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2294
Book Description
Haunting Experiences
Author: Diane GoldsteinPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0874216818
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.