Many of our AGS members are avid readers. If you are one of them, we hope you’ll join us on the third Sunday of each month for the AGS Book Club. Each month we'll focus on a book about cemeteries, gravestones, mourning customs, funerary practices and death & dying. We hope to include books written by AGS members, classics in our field, newly published books, as well as fiction that feature the subjects mentioned above.
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Our selection for March 2024: Death's Garden Revisited, Edited by Loren Rhoads
The book Death's Garden Revisited collects 40 powerful personal essays — accompanied by lovely photographs— to illustrate why people visit cemeteries. Genealogists and geocachers, travelers and tour guides, anthropologists, historians, pagan priestesses, and ghost hunters all venture into cemeteries in these essays. They discover that cemeteries don't only provide a rewarding end to a pilgrimage, they can be the perfect location for a first date or a wedding, the highlight of a family vacation, a cure for depression, and the best possible place to grasp history. Not to mention that cemetery-grown fruit is the sweetest. Spanning the globe from Iceland to Argentina and from Portland to Prague, Death’s Garden Revisited explores the complex web of relationships between the living and those who have passed before.
Looking forward to seeing you in March!
Your hosts: Alma Sinan and Ashlynn Rickord Werner
PO Box 2975 | Amherst, MA 01004 | 413.772.0836 The Association for Gravestone Studies is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Copyright 2024
