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• Publisher : New England Historic Genealogical Society(NEHGS)
• File Size : 29,7 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 1990

Gravestone Chronicles I includes insightful essays and new scholarship on eighteenth-century New England gravestone carvers and their art. (An every-name, every-place index to both books is included in Volume II.).

• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 36,6 Mb
• Release Date : 18 February 2015

"Here lyes Buried the Body of MARTHA PERONNEAU...Departed This Life December Ye 14th 1746 Aged 13 Years." Such an inscription was typical of 18th century grave markers in Charleston, South Carolina.

• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 35,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 November 2021

The graveyards of old New England hold an incredible range of poetic messages in the epitaphs etched into the gravestones, each a profound expression of emotion, culture, religion, and literature.

• Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
• File Size : 55,7 Mb
• Release Date : 08 August 2016

The slate gravestones of southern Maine bear evidence to the region's fascinating history, from shipwrecks and famous wartime sea captains to countless ordinary citizens. Master stone-cutter Bartlett Adams memorialized the

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• File Size : 50,6 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 2024

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones presents a culturally diverse account of New Jersey's historic burial places from High Point to Cape May and from the banks of the Delaware to

• Publisher : New England Historic Genealogical Society(NEHGS)
• File Size : 23,7 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 1990

Gravestone Chronicles I includes insightful essays and new scholarship on eighteenth-century New England gravestone carvers and their art. (An every-name, every-place index to both books is included in Volume II.).

• Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
• File Size : 55,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 2006

When the early colonists came to America, they were braving a new world, with new wonders and difficulties. Family historians beginning the search for their ancestors from this period run

• Publisher : Popular Press
• File Size : 47,9 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 1994

In this richly illustrated volume, art historian Peggy McDowell and folklorist Richard E. Meyer blend their respective disciplinary perspectives, along with their shared long-standing fascination with cemeteries and funerary material

• Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
• File Size : 31,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 October 2016

“A rip-roaring Swiftian satire from a contemporary Chinese master” follows a rural community’s transformation from small village to megalopolis (The Economist). With the Yi River on one side and

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 06 February 2017

The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field. This encyclopedia provides both the casual browser and