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Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel by Loren Rhoads
35 travel essays about visiting 50 cemeteries. You can order the book directly from Amazon. Just click on the cover.
Cemetery Travels Notebook: Photography by Loren Rhoads
Need a place to record your own cemetery adventures? This notebook contains photos from Cemetery Travel and 85 blank lined pages.
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2011. If it were a … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Waiting
Once the ferry docked, everyone shuffled down the gangplank onto the blindingly white memorial. Despite the bustle, the monument seemed very peaceful. People kept quiet, moved slowly, were relatively polite to each other — but the men didn’t take off … Continue reading
Cemetery of the Week #44: The U.S.S. Arizona Memorial
The U.S.S. Arizona Memorial No. 1 Arizona Memorial Place Honolulu, Hawaii 96818 Telephone: (808) 422-3300 Established: 1962 Size: 10 acres Number of interments: 1102 of the 1177 men who died on the Arizona. Some were cremated at their posts. Others … Continue reading
Cemetery of the Week #43: Christ Church Burial Ground
Christ Church Burial Ground Arch Street between 4th & 5th Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 Telephone: (215) 922-1695 Established: 1719 Size: two acres Number of interments: An estimated 6500 Open: In December, on Friday and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m., weather … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Family
When I showed my grandmother Death’s Garden, hot off the presses in 1996, I was nervous about what she would say about a book of essays about cemeteries. Grandma was a plainspoken woman who survived the Depression as a girl … Continue reading
