The Tombstone Tourist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tombstone Tourist write by Scott Stanton. This book was released on 2003-09. The Tombstone Tourist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a guide to the shrines, graves, and memorabilia of jazz, blues, country, rhythm and blues, and rock musicians.
The Tombstone Tourist in Cuba
The Tombstone Tourist in Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tombstone Tourist in Cuba write by Terisa E. Gigiel. This book was released on 2022-05-13. The Tombstone Tourist in Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Tombstone Tourist In Cuba immerses you in a world that is rich in history, culture, and religion. In this book of photography, you will take a detour from the beaten path of beach resorts and discover this storied Caribbean nation via its cemeteries and monuments. Here you will learn about how the country’s population celebrates, pays tribute to, and mourns its people. This book explores the symbolism and historical significance of different tombs, crypts, and monuments. Amid the marble pathways, pink bougainvillea, and intricately carved monuments are powerful reminders of lives lived. Some tombs tell the story of a person who has risen to mythical levels, while others demonstrate the honour afforded people who died under tragic circumstances. A gravesite can tell you so much about people: who they were, what they represented, how they were loved . . . But this book is not just a guided tour of Cuba’s many and varied cemeteries. It is a photographic journey into the heart of a nation. Through these stories and images, you will uncover a side to the people and the country that you may never have otherwise come to learn. And who knows? Perhaps you’ll take a detour of your own, the next time you travel, and explore a cemetery for yourself. Why not start with Cuba?
Next Door to the Dead
Next Door to the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Next Door to the Dead write by Kathleen Driskell. This book was released on 2015-08-14. Next Door to the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Kathleen Driskell tells her husband that she's gone to visit the neighbors, she means something different than most. The noted poet -- whose last book, Seed across Snow, was twice listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation -- lives in an old country church just outside Louisville, Kentucky. Next door is an old graveyard that she was told had fallen out of use. In this marvelous new collection, this turns out not to be the case as the poet's fascination with the "neighbors" brings the burial ground back to life. Driskell frequently strolls the cemetery grounds, imagining the lives and loves of those buried beside her property. These "neighbors," with burial dates as early as 1848, inspire poems that weave stories, real and imagined, from the epitaphs and unmarked graves. Shifting between perspectives, she embraces and inhabits the voices of those laid to rest while also describing the grounds, the man who mows around the markers, and even the flocks of black birds that hover above before settling amongst the gravestones. Next Door to the Dead transcends time and place, linking the often disconnected worlds of the living and the deceased. Just as examining the tombstones forces the author to look more closely at her own life, Driskell's poems and their muses compel us to examine our own mortality, as well as how we impact the finite lives of those around us.
Tombstone, A.T.
Tombstone, A.T. - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tombstone, A.T. write by William B. Shillingberg. This book was released on 2016. Tombstone, A.T. available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. William B. Shillingberg rediscovers the real Tombstone in this historical tour-de-force. The rough mining town of boomers and investors, of hard men and women seeking their fortunes, comes to life with startling clarity. Tombstone, A.T.: A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem relates true tales of those who founded and built the town, including the infamous Earps and Clantons.
199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die
199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die write by Loren Rhoads. This book was released on 2017-10-24. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.
