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A Graveyard
Preservation Primer
by Lynette Strangstad
Written for
non-professional and professional
preservationists involved in small to
mid-size graveyard preservation projects,
this basic primer explains in step-by-step
fashion how to preserve and restore a
graveyard. Restoration is discussed with
recommendations as to what lay people should
and should not undertake.
Softbound; 144 pages,
index, illustrations.
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Mapping and Documenting Cemeteries
By Pamela Goffinet
This is a practical how-to book that guides the reader throught the process of mapping and documenting a cemetery with easily available tools and basic skills. Included are instructions on creating a map, gathering an inscription database, and assembling a spreadsheet of related information, such as from deeds. Each step is illustrated and accompanied with easy to understand directions.
Spiralbound, 96 pages
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Preservation of Historic Burial Grounds
By Lynette Strangstad
A National Trust Publication, which provides an overview of the significance of historic burial grounds, concerns about their preservation, and appropriate conservation methods. Updated in 2003.
24 pages
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Like Tablets of
the Law Thrown Down: They Colonial Jewish
Burying Ground, Newport, Rhode Island
By David Mayer Gradwohl
This study is the first undertaken from the
perspective of historical and
ethno-archaeology, and was sponsored by a
Touro National Heritage Trust Fellowship.
Established in 1677, Newport's Colonial
Jewish Burying Ground served as the cemetery
for New England's Jews throughout the 17th
and 18th centuries, up into the 1840's at
which time Massachusetts permitted Jews to
establish cemeteries there.
This study explores the gravestone forms and
mortuary symbolism of these Colonial Jews as
well as the linguistic traditions
represented in their epitaphs.
Softcover, 69
pages.
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A Field Guide to
Visiting a Jewish Cemetery: A Spiritual
Journey
to the Past, Present and Future
By Joshua L. Segal, Rabbi
This guide integrates the physical aspects
of Jewish monuments
with the spiritual and technical
significance of tombstone inscriptions.
The material presented is simple enough that
it can be understood by
those with the most minimal exposure to
Hebrew, but it is comprehensive enough to be
a valuable resource to the most
sophisticated Jewish
readers. It has a dictionary of Hebrew words
found on tombstones
and also includes common expressions that
appear.
Softcover; 214 pages, Black and white
photos, index.
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Holyoke,
Massachusetts Stories Carved in
Stone
By Rusty Clark
Holyoke,
Massachusetts - Stories Carved in Stone,
takes you into Holyoke's graveyards for a
look at more than two hundred and fifty
years of history, and the people who lived
it. This third book in the Stories Carved
in Stone series completes the three-part
overview of early West Springfield,
Massachusetts, before Agawam and Holyoke
became towns. Together they present a full
picture of the gravestone carvers, the
mourning practices, and the families who
lived and died here. Gravestone fans and
genealogists alike will find much to explore
in these old cemeteries. It contains an
extensive index of local family names and
places.
Softcover, 196 pages,
black and white images
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Agawam,
Massachusetts Stories Carved in Stone
By Rusty Clark
Covering the
colonial-era cemeteries of Agawam, this book
includes the sensational account of the days
and events leading up to the grisly axe
murder/razor suicide of Samuel and Harriet
Leonard as written and narrated by the
Reverend William B. Sprague at the interment
services in 1826.
Softcover, 182 pages,
black and white images
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By Their Markers
Ye Shall Know Them: A Chronicle of the
History and Restorations of Hartford's
Ancient Burying Ground
By William Hosley and Shepherd M. Holcombe,
Sr.
The story of Hartford,
Connecticut's 350-year-old Ancient Burying
Ground and the various efforts (beginning in
1896) to stop the deterioration of the
cemetery's sandstone markers. The book
contains information about fundraising,
conservation treatments, and outreach
programs.
Softbound, 189 pages, 70
photos. Includes inscription list and map of
the yard.
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Philadelphia
Graveyards and Cemeteries
By Thomas H. Keels
From Arcadia Publishing’s Images of
America Series. Philadelphia Graveyards and
Cemeteries is the first pictorial history of
the city's burial sites, traces the story of
these silent cities of the dead from
Philadelphia's founding until the present.
It includes chapters on Colonial and Federal
graveyards; Laurel Hill Cemetery; the
Woodlands; other Victorian cemeteries;
neighborhood graveyards; African-American
burial sites; Catholic and Jewish
cemeteries; the trappings of death; and
vanished cemeteries. Included is over 200
photographs, many of them rarely seen, from
private collections and from Philadelphia's
major museums and historical collections.
Softcover,
128 pages, black and white photos.
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Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and
Indian Raid on Deerfield
by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney
This very readable and well-researched book
is of great value for understanding the
early settlements of the Connecticut
Valley—the players and their motivations.
There are many markers in area burial
grounds recording captives, returned or
lost.
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Sacred Symbols of Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery: A Guide to the Many Sacred Symbols of Atlanta's Oldest Public Cemetery
by Richard Waterhouse
One of the most beautiful examples in the United States of the Rural Garden Cemetery Movement, Oakland’s parklike expanse still welcomes visitors to escape for a picnic or stroll, and the often sizable, highly embellished gravestones, mausolea, and monuments of the Victorian era encourage – through their elaborate symbolism – reflection on this life and the one beyond. From scallop shells to tree stumps, to saints, angels, and the anchor & cross, Richard Waterhouse, a longtime Oakland docent and the creator of a popular Oakland symbolism tour, illuminates the symbols’ sacred meanings as intended by the Victorians, while revealing the oftentimes classical and other pagan derivations. The history of Atlanta and the cemetery meanders entertainingly through the book. Sacred Symbols of Oakland ($24.95, check or money order) is available directly from the author (please add $5.00 shipping & handling). For further information, contact Richard Waterhouse at rwaterhouse@comcast.net.
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Gravestone
Inscriptions, Brewster, Mass.
Compiled and edited by Charles E. Mayo
This book is an archival
quality facsimile edition of the 1898
mortuary record from the gravestones in the
Old Burial Ground, Brewster, Massachusetts.
Contains biographical and genealogical
notes.
Hardcover; 82 pages,
alphabetical index of names
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Tombstone
Inscriptions, Litchfield & Morris,
Connecticut
Transcribed by Charles Thomas Payne
This book is an archival
quality facsimile edition of the 1905
inscription record from cemeteries in
Litchfield and Morris, Connecticut. Twelve
cemeteries are included:
West Cemetery, East Cemetery, Bantam
Cemetery, Northfield Cemetery, Milton
Cemetery, Headquarters Cemetery, Morris
Cemetery, Footville Cemetery, East
Litchfield Cemetery, Catholic Cemetery,
Beach Family Burying Ground, and Soldier's
Lot.
Hardcover; 304 pages,
alphabetical index of names
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Cemetery
Inscriptions Portsmouth & Newcastle, New
Hampshire
By Arthur H. Locke, New Hampshire Historical
Society
This book is an archival
quality facsimile edition of the 1907
inscription record from nineteen cemeteries
in Portsmouth and Newcastle, NH. The names
are listed in alphabetical order.
Hardcover; 44 pages.
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