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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Inside the front cover , the date February , 1834 , is noted and an index follows that includes entries for houses , edifices , churches , and tombs . There are about sixty pages devoted to tombs , sometimes with several sketches or ...
Inside the front cover , the date February , 1834 , is noted and an index follows that includes entries for houses , edifices , churches , and tombs . There are about sixty pages devoted to tombs , sometimes with several sketches or ...
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The anthropologist James Deetz has noted that “ there is no better place in all of New England to stand face to face with the past than in the old burying grounds . ... From the designs of these stones , and the way they vary in time ...
The anthropologist James Deetz has noted that “ there is no better place in all of New England to stand face to face with the past than in the old burying grounds . ... From the designs of these stones , and the way they vary in time ...
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On a Tuesday , August 12 , 1766 , Caesar noted " a pleasant ride out to Portsmouth ” for a picnic . He was accompanied by Sarah Searing , Neptune Sisson and his wife , Zingo Stevens and Phillis Lyndon , Boston Vose , and Prince Thurston ...
On a Tuesday , August 12 , 1766 , Caesar noted " a pleasant ride out to Portsmouth ” for a picnic . He was accompanied by Sarah Searing , Neptune Sisson and his wife , Zingo Stevens and Phillis Lyndon , Boston Vose , and Prince Thurston ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Pealkiri | Cemeteries Gravemarkers |
| Editor | Richard Meyer |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Utah State University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 mär. 2005 |
| ISBN | 0874211603, 9780874211603 |
| Length | 347 pages |
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