Author: Wiley R. PopePublisher:
ISBN: 9780936482248
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Minnesota Cemetery Locations
Author: Wiley R. PopePublisher:
ISBN: 9780936482248
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Minnesota Cemetery Locations
Author: Wiley R. PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Six Feet Under
Author: Stew ThornleyPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873515146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This handy guide locates the final resting places and tells the stories of more than 375 notable Minnesotans. Author Stew Thornley travelled throughout Minnesota in pursuit of the historical fact, the little-known tale, the striking monument, and the truth behind the colourful exaggeration. Visiting cemeteries from every era and every region of the state, Thornley recounts the histories of the famous, infamous, and just plain interesting Minnesotans who lie at rest in the state. The book contains a useful appendix with a county-by-county listing of the cemeteries and individuals mentioned within. Perfect for road trippers and armchair travellers alike, 'Six Feet Under' is an enlightening guide to the state's history.
Dakota Uprising Victims
Author: Curtis A. DahlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Grave Matters
Author: Mark HarrisPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743299280
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came calling. Grave Matters follows families who found in "green" burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor. Eschewing chemical embalming and fancy caskets, elaborate and costly funerals, they have embraced a range of natural options, new and old, that are redefining a better American way of death. Environmental journalist Mark Harris examines this new green burial underground, leading you into natural cemeteries and domestic graveyards, taking you aboard boats from which ashes and memorial "reef balls" are cast into the sea. He follows a family that conducts a home funeral, one that delivers a loved one to the crematory, and another that hires a carpenter to build a pine coffin. In the morbidly fascinating tradition of Stiff, Grave Matters details the embalming process and the environmental aftermath of the standard funeral. Harris also traces the history of burial in America, from frontier cemeteries to the billion-dollar business it is today, reporting on real families who opted for more simple, natural returns. For readers who want to follow the examples of these families and, literally, give back from the grave, appendices detail everything you need to know, from exact costs and laws to natural burial providers and their contact information.
Minnesota's Indian Mounds and Burial Sites
Author: Constance M. ArzigianPublisher: Minnesota Office of State Archaeologist
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time
Author: Paula Tarnapol WhitacrePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1612349609
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family’s farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington, DC. As an ardent abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old Wilbur left a sad but stable life, headed toward the chaos of the Civil War, and spent the next several years in Alexandria, Virginia, devising ways to aid recently escaped slaves and hospitalized Union soldiers. A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time shapes Wilbur’s diaries and other primary sources into a historical narrative of a woman who was alternately brave, self-pitying, foresighted, and myopic. Paula Tarnapol Whitacre describes Wilbur’s experiences against the backdrop of Alexandria, a southern town held by the Union from 1861 to 1865; of Washington, DC, where Wilbur became active in the women’s suffrage movement; and of Rochester, New York, where she began a lifelong association with Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony. Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents of a Slave Girl, became Wilbur’s friend and ally. Together, the two women, black and white, fought social convention to improve the lives of African Americans escaping slavery by coming across Union lines. In doing so, they faced the challenge to achieve racial and gender equality that continues today. A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time is the captivating story of a woman who remade herself at midlife during a period of massive social upheaval.
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.
Report of Trustees
Author: Medford, Mass. Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
To Establish Additional National Cemeteries
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description