Cemeteries GravemarkersRichard Meyer Utah State University Press, 1992 - 347 pages Cemeteries 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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Page 83
... remains to be written a truly comprehensive history of logging and loggers in the United States . The most useful treatment to date is actually based upon Canadian materials : see Donald MacKay , The Lumberjacks ( Toronto : McGraw ...
... remains to be written a truly comprehensive history of logging and loggers in the United States . The most useful treatment to date is actually based upon Canadian materials : see Donald MacKay , The Lumberjacks ( Toronto : McGraw ...
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... remains to be done , the initial results are encouraging and seem to clearly suggest that Europe is a signifi- cant source area for the diffusion of cemetery traits characteristic of the Upland South folk graveyard . In summary , it ...
... remains to be done , the initial results are encouraging and seem to clearly suggest that Europe is a signifi- cant source area for the diffusion of cemetery traits characteristic of the Upland South folk graveyard . In summary , it ...
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... remains of the deceased were pushed to the back of the vault or removed and placed in a small receptacle within the tomb . Wooden coffin remains were usually burned . As noted above , there were two basic variations of 142 New Orleans ...
... remains of the deceased were pushed to the back of the vault or removed and placed in a small receptacle within the tomb . Wooden coffin remains were usually burned . As noted above , there were two basic variations of 142 New Orleans ...
Contents
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest | 61 |
Copyright | |
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