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Brief thoughts about a book you shouldn’t miss
The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds by Marilyn Yalom My rating: 5 of 5 stars The definitive text on burial grounds in America, this provides a...
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100 Cemeteries to Visit Before You Die
Famous and Curious Cemeteries: A Pictorial, Historical, and Anecdotal View of American and European Cemeteries and the Famous and Infamous People Who by John Francis Marion My rating: 5 of 5 stars This...
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The ultimate cemetery travel inspiration
The Cemetery Book: Graveyards, Catacombs and Other Travel Haunts Around the World by Tom Weil My rating: 5 of 5 stars Have a friend who likes to travel? This is the ultimate guidebook for people who...
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The most beautiful book of New Orleans photos
Elysium: A Gathering of Souls: New Orleans Cemeteries by Sandra Russell Clark My rating: 5 of 5 stars Andrei Codrescu’s foreword (“A Trumpet in Heaven”) begins by meditating on cemeteries as a final...
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A big, big book of New Orleans cemetery photographs
Consecrated Ground: Funerary Art of New Orleans by Lisa L Cook My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you truly love someone, impress her with this magnificent book. It’s 12×15 inches and chock full of...
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Homemade tribute to New Orleans’ cemeteries
Sacred ~ New Orleans Funerary Grounds by Elizabeth Huston My rating: 2 of 5 stars I don’t know if it’s fair to review a book published on Lulu, but I paid my $32 (It would have been more, but I had a...
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What cemeteries have you visited on vacation?
Greetings from Boot Hill! As a product of the classic American childhood road trip, I’m curious to know which cemeteries you’ve visited on vacation. Please check all that apply. Feel free to add...
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What’s the Spookiest Cemetery?
It’s hard for me to think about cemeteries as scary. I haven’t ever had any truly frightening things happen to me in a graveyard (yet), but I certainly have gotten good and spooked a couple of times....
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Cemetery Postcards
“The most interesting of New Orleans’ historic burial places…” Ten years ago, I started to collect antique postcards of graveyards. I was entertained that such a thing existed: why would anyone buy,...
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A Photographic Tour of New Orleans’ Historic Cemeteries
New Orleans: Cemeteries by Eric J. Brock My rating: 4 of 5 stars This little gem is part of a series which collects historic photographs of Americana. Images of America: New Orleans Cemeteries includes...
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Traveling through Movies
St. Louis #1, New Orleans I’m working hard to promote The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two, a collection of ghost-hunting reports and short stories which I edited, with a series of interviews on my...
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An advertisement for the New Orleans Cemeteries
Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Journey Through the Cities of the Dead by Jan Arrigo My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is full of lovely color photographs of the cemeteries of New Orleans. From the...
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Death’s Garden: New Orleans Blues
All photos of St. Louis #1 in New Orleans provided by Christine Sutton. by Christine Sutton A few years ago, my husband and I decided to go on a much-needed vacation. Some time away from the stress of...
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Louisiana’s Endangered Cemeteries
Fragile Grounds: Louisiana’s Endangered Cemeteries by Jessica H. Schexnayder and Mary H. Manhein My rating: 3 of 5 stars What an important topic for a book about cemeteries! Louisiana loses the an area...
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Sacred Ground in New Orleans
Sacred Ground: The Cemeteries of New Orleans by Robert S. Brantley My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have a lot of cemetery books. I even have a lot of books about the cemeteries of New Orleans. This one is a...
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