Cemetery Walk: Journey into the Art, History and Society of the Cemetery and Beyond - Softcover

Powers-Douglas, Minda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420868268 ISBN 13: 9781420868265

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

What awaits beyond the cemetery gates ...? Journey into the cemetery and beyond with author Minda Powers-Douglas and meet cemetery sextons, gravediggers, preservationists, writers, artists, authors, ghost hunters, the director of a funeral museum, a genealogist, and an assortment of taphophiles (people who love cemeteries). Discover what's really behind our attitudes toward death, graveyards and those resting inside them. Find out what is superstition and what's fact in this insightful and often funny guide into the world of cemeteries. You'll meet British horror author Simon Clark, "low-brow" artist Madame Talbot, genealogy author and lecturer Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, Jon Austin from the Museum of Funeral Customs, and New Orleans Voodoo Priestess Miriam, as well as many more intriguing individuals. Come explore the dark side ... it's not as scary as you think. You'll never look at a cemetery the same way again.

About this title

About the Author:

Minda Powers-Douglas is a writer and editor for a chiropractic college by day and an avid reader and writer by night. A graduate of Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., she has taught writing and creativity workshops for more than ten years (including memoir, creative writing, poetry, cemetery art and even Feng Shui). She created and directed the self-esteem enhancing program, Girls Make a Difference, for five years. Girls Make a Difference was based on the book of the same name, which was self-published and given to each of the girls who participated. She is also the author of "Memories of Me: Your Life in Memoir," which is in limited print. Minda is the founder and editor-in-chief of Epitaphs, a magazine for cemetery lovers by cemetery lovers. She lives in Moline, Ill., with her husband, Bill, and their feline "daughters," Shakespeare and India. Please visit her Web site at www.TheCemeteryClub.com, and feel free to e-mail her at minda@thecemeteryclub.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1420868268
• ISBN 13: 9781420868265
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448