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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.
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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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Tag Archives: cemetery tours
The Symbols of Oakland Cemetery
by Richard Waterhouse We all have quiet, calm places that we go to during times of transition. Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery has always been that place for me. My first encounter with the cemetery was in 1988, when I was at … Continue reading
Death’s Garden: Chiswick New
by Sheldon K. Goodman If you’ve ever loved the roar of traffic and the screaming engines of passenger aircraft, there is one cemetery that stands head and shoulders above the rest. Located near the idyllic Chiswick House and the beautiful A136 dual … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetery essay, Death's Garden Revisited
Tagged cemetery tours, Deaths Garden, English cemeteries, London cemetery
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Death’s Garden: A Tale of 25,000 Tales
by M. Parfitt It’s seven o’clock on a Saturday morning and I’m getting dressed. First, the stockings and shoes. Yep, shoes first. Then the voluminous hoop skirt, 150 inches in circumference, followed by the pillowy little bustle, then the dress … Continue reading
Nothing like a Cemetery to Enliven a Trip
Hello! Long time, no see, as my father says. I have been swamped in my other life as a science fiction novelist. The first book in my space opera trilogy came out on July 7, so I have been busily … Continue reading
Posted in Good cemetery news
Tagged cemetery tours, Cemetery Travels Notebook, chicago tribune
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Upcoming tour of Union Cemetery
In 1850, sailors discovered that Redwood Creek emptied into the San Francisco Bay in a natural deep-water channel. Within a year, men began to log the redwood trees of the Santa Cruz Mountains. A village originally called Redwood Landing took … Continue reading
