Cemeteries GravemarkersCemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large. |
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Directions from Dr. Daniel Patterson , Director of the Folk Life Division of the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , made it possible for me to locate some of the key burial grounds where Bigham ...
Directions from Dr. Daniel Patterson , Director of the Folk Life Division of the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , made it possible for me to locate some of the key burial grounds where Bigham ...
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The opening in the north wall and the slashed saddle were to facilitate the journey northward of the good within an individual which journeys , but they also served to warn the living of the ch'iidii which remain .
The opening in the north wall and the slashed saddle were to facilitate the journey northward of the good within an individual which journeys , but they also served to warn the living of the ch'iidii which remain .
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Marquardt , Lewis R. “ Metal Grave Markers in German - Russian Cemeteries of Emmons County , North Dakota . ” Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia 2 : 2 ( 1979 ) , pp . 18–26 .
Marquardt , Lewis R. “ Metal Grave Markers in German - Russian Cemeteries of Emmons County , North Dakota . ” Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia 2 : 2 ( 1979 ) , pp . 18–26 .
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Copyright | |
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