Download or read book Famous and Curious Cemeteries written by John Francis Marion and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1977 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die written by Loren Rhoads and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.
Download or read book Graveyards of Chicago written by Matt Hucke and published by Lake Claremont Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.
Download or read book Famous Graves to Visit Before written by Cooper Steve and published by New Holland Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some living legends that are so big, that even dead, they're larger than life. Famous Graves to Visit B4 You Die showcases the final resting places of the famous, the infamous and the historic ... from Bogart and JFK, to Henry VIII and the Great Pyramid of Giza, they're all here in one great book. Compiled by former history teacher and author Steve Cooper, this eclectic list features potted biographies of each subject, the stories behind their often fascinating lives and spectacular deaths, and maps and images of their gravesites around the world. Covering the varying forms of the famous, whether a political powerhouse, an infamous troublemaker, or a film and TV legend, details of their famous lives, demise and final resting place is laid out for the reader to explore. Famous Graves to Visit B4 You Die is a great book for anyone with a curiosity for the more macabre aspects of the lives of the rich and famous. Historical buffs, pop culture aficionados, travelers young and old, Famous Graves to Visit B4 You Die is the book you've been looking for.
Download or read book Spooky Cemeteries written by Elsie Olson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tour some of the world's most famous haunted places in Spooky Cemeteries. Young readers will learn about the history, eerie occurrences, and public reactions to several spooky sites. The book also provides historic context and scientific facts that explain what is really going on. Dynamic photos and illustrative details will make readers feel as though they've just visited each hair-raising locale! Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book The Speaking Stone written by Michael Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, following curiosity and accident wherever they lead. The result is this fascinating collection, which narrates the lives of those he encountered on the way. Griffith lingers amidst the traces left behind--these are stories of race, feminism, art, and death, uncovered through obituaries, archival documents, and family legacies. Some essays focus on well-known figures like the feminist icon and freethinker Fanny Wright, but most chronicle the lives of lesser-known figures (a spiritual medium, a temperance advocate, the designers of caskets and hearses, the inventor of the glass-door oven) or of nearly unknown ones (a young heiress who died under mysterious circumstances, the daring sign-painters known as walldogs). The Speaking Stone examines what endures and what doesn't, reflecting on the vanity and poignancy of our attempts to leave monuments that last. Archival photos grace the pages of these thirteen essays that explore a larger, deeply tangled complex of ideas about place, history, self, and art.
Download or read book Grave Guide Find Their Graves written by Jack Young and published by . This book was released on 1912-06-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help you find the graves of famous people. It contains the facts about their deaths and everything surrounding such facts. You will find out why, how and where they died, what happened at each funeral and where their final resting places are. You will also find other curious facts about their deaths.There are many websites where information can be found about famous resting places. During my research, I found out that a lot of this information is wrong or you cannot find what you are looking for in the first place. Much of the infor-mation is about the person's life and what they were famous for.However, you are looking for the cause of death and gravesites.For each grave or cemetery, you will find the GPS coordinates to the grave's ex-act location. More than 75% of all GPS coordinates will show you the exact posi-tion of the grave and not only the position of the cemetery. You will also get the complete address of the cemetery or resting place and their web pages (if they have one).It has never been easier to locate the places you are looking for.This guide contains the burial information for more than 625 famous people. For many of them you will find information you cannot get anywhere else.
Download or read book Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries written by Thomas H. Keels and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, is the final resting place of some of the nation's greatest citizens. The burial grounds of Christ Church hold the remains of Benjamin Franklin and six other signers of the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia pioneered the development of the rural cemetery with the establishment of Laurel Hill, eternal home to Gettysburg hero George Gordon Meade and thirty-nine other Civil War-era generals. In Philadelphia's Jewish, Catholic, and African American burial grounds rest such notable figures as Rebecca Gratz, model for the Jewish heroine of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe; John Barry, Catholic father of the U.S. Navy; and Octavius Catto, an African American civil-rights leader of the nineteenth century. Finally, there are the vanished cemeteries, such as Monument, Lafayette, and Franklin. Transformed into playgrounds and parking lots, these cemeteries were obliterated with sometimes horrific callousness. Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries tells the intriguing history of these burial grounds, whether revered or long forgotten.
Download or read book The American Resting Place written by Marilyn Yalom and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 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.
Download or read book Grave Guide Find Their Graves written by Jack Young and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help you find the graves of famous people. It contains the facts about their deaths and everything surrounding such facts. You will find out why, how and where they died, what happened at each funeral and where their final resting places are. You will also find other curious facts about their deaths.There are many websites where information can be found about famous resting places. During my research, I found out that a lot of this information is wrong or you can't find what your looking for in the first place. Much of the information is about the person's life and what they were famous for.However, you are looking for the cause of death and grave sites.For each grave or cemetery, you will find the GPS coordinates to the grave's exact location. More than 75% of all GPS coordinates will show you the exact position of the grave and not only the position of the cemetery. With a click on the integrated link, the exact location will be shown in Google Maps. You will also get the complete address of the cemetery or resting place and their web pages (if they have one).It has never been easier to locate the places you are looking for.This guide contains the burial information for more than 625 famous people. For many of them you will find information you cannot get anywhere else.Every day I search for new graves and their locations. If the person you are looking for is not listed in this book, check out my web page http://www.grave-guide.com. Here you will find all the people from my database and the books in which their information is published.
Download or read book Wish You Were Here written by Loren Rhoads and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every tourist destination has a graveyard. Over the past two and a half decades, Loren Rhoads has visited literally hundreds of graveyards. She's traveled to London's Highgate Cemetery, strolled through the Paris Catacombs, seen Hollywood Forever pulled back from the brink of destruction, studied Native American graveyards in Michigan, explored a circuit minister¿s churchyard on Maui, delved into the Protestant Cemetery of Rome and Zoshigaya Reien in Tokyo, and made stops in Venice, Boston, Los Angeles, Hiroshima, Yosemite, Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, and New Orleans along the way. Come along on her adventures in cemeteries around the world.
Download or read book Stones and Bones of New England written by Lisa Rogak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's for their solace and beauty or for the sense of history that seeps from the ground, cemeteries are fascinating places to visit, this guide shows where to find the most interesting and unusual ones in all of New England. Some have headstones that are fine art, others are associated with notorious events, and others are the final resting place of famous poets, soldiers, and statesmen. Included are large public facilities as well as the small family burying grounds hidden away behind crumbling stone walls and along once-cultivated farmland. A sampling of cemeteries profiled: *Hope Cemetery in Barre, Vermont, where lifelike sculptures of angels and Greek goddesses stand next to a stone soccer ball and Shell Oil truck gravemarker, all elaborately carved from local granite by immigrant Italian stonecutters. *Spider Gates Cemetery, in Leicester, Massachusetts, a notorious Quaker burying ground famed for its frequent ghost sightings and still in use today. *A cemetery situated on the raised median of the Interstate in Warner, New Hampshire,which was preserved in 1970 by highway planners, who constructed the roadway around it. *Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, Vermont, final resting place of Timothy Clark Smith, whose 1893 crypt includes a window to help him escape in case he was buried alive. Driving directions are provided for each cemetery, and detailed maps show the location of the more obscure graveyards. This unique guide offers an intriguing way to learn about the history and culture of New England.
Download or read book Discovering Famous Graves written by Lynn F. Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where Are They Buried 2023 Revised and Updated written by Tod Benoit and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of our most enduring cultural icons has been revised and updated to include celebrities like Betty White, Alex Trebek, and many more. Where Are They Buried? has directed legions of fervent fans and multitudes of the morbidly curious to the graves, monuments, and tombstones of the more than 500 celebrities and antiheroes included in the book. The most comprehensive guide on the subject by far, every entry features an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts, a detailed description of the death, and step-by-step directions to the grave, including not only the name of the cemetery but the exact location of the gravesite and how to reach it. The book also provides a handy index of grave locations organized by state, province, and country to make planning a grave-hopping road trip easy and efficient. The 2023 edition adds 8 new entries including Kobe Bryant, Eddie Van Halen, and Regis Philbin.
Download or read book LA s Graveside Companion written by Steve Goldstein and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years in the making, this informative guide to a dozen Los Angeles cemeteries locates the 400 most interesting gravesites in Southern California. Over 270 color photos, informative text, and driving directions guide readers to the graves of L.A.'s most famous and influential citizens. Included are early film stars Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, and Florence Lawrence; along with Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky. It includes the graves of former slave turned philanthropist Biddy Mason and comic legends Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, and George Jessel; even the area's most visited grave, Marilyn Monroe's, is featured. The text includes biographies for each star and where bodies are buried that are not in cemeteries! All who are passionate about history and the movies will treasure this book.
Download or read book Arlington written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the national cemetery--from the Revolutionary War to the present.
Download or read book Where Are They Buried 2023 Revised and Updated written by Tod Benoit and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of our most enduring cultural icons has been revised and updated to include celebrities like Betty White, Alex Trebek, and many more. Where Are They Buried? has directed legions of fervent fans and multitudes of the morbidly curious to the graves, monuments, and tombstones of the more than 500 celebrities and antiheroes included in the book. The most comprehensive guide on the subject by far, every entry features an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts, a detailed description of the death, and step-by-step directions to the grave, including not only the name of the cemetery but the exact location of the gravesite and how to reach it. The book also provides a handy index of grave locations organized by state, province, and country to make planning a grave-hopping road trip easy and efficient. The 2023 edition adds 8 new entries including Kobe Bryant, Eddie Van Halen, and Regis Philbin.
