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Author : Barbara Lanctot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962056260
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (562 download)
Download or read book A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery written by Barbara Lanctot and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matt Hucke
Publisher : Lake Claremont Press
ISBN 13 : 9780964242647
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Graveyards of Chicago written by Matt Hucke and published by Lake Claremont Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.
Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781510713420
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Mysterious Chicago written by Adam Selzer and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries. To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first “automobile murderer,” and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery. The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fiction—true crime from urban legend. Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the “crime” and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.
Author : Barbara Lanctot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (897 download)
Download or read book A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery written by Barbara Lanctot and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Lanctot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (771 download)
Download or read book A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery written by Barbara Lanctot and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Ogden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493036637
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Haunted Cemeteries written by Tom Ogden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody knows better. Yet from the days of ancient Greece, people have hurried their steps as they passed by—or, heaven forbid, walked through—a cemetery after dark. Indeed, over the centuries there have been countless stories of ghost encounters at churchyards, secular cemeteries, ancient burial grounds, and isolated graves. The second edition of Haunted Cemeteries exhumes more than 200 haunted happenings from restless graveyard ghosts in cemeteries across each of the fifty states and Washington, DC, including: Nevermore!: At least four entities, including the spectre of Edgar Allan Poe, haunt Westminster Burying Ground in Baltimore. And just who is the mysterious Man in Black that shows up every year on January 19, the writer’s birthday?. The Resurrection Apparition: A “hitchhiking ghost” outside Justice, Illinois, vanishes from the car she’s riding in as it passes Resurrection Cemetery—earning her the nickname Resurrection Mary. The Queen of Voodoo: The restless spirit of Marie Laveau, the nineteenth-century Queen of Voodoo, is said to appear in New Orleans’s St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in the form of a gigantic black crow or a phantom black hellhound—when she’s not walking through the French Quarter.
Author : Kate Sweeney
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820346896
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book American Afterlife written by Kate Sweeney and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning writer explores the patchwork American cultural history of grieving the departed. One family inters their matriarch’s ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, “You can make mummies with it!” while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mother, 150 years ago, might spend her days tending a garden at her daughter’s grave. Today, she might tend the roadside memorial she erected where her daughter was killed. One mother wears a locket containing her daughter’s hair; the other, a necklace containing her ashes. What happens after someone dies depends on our personal stories and on where those stories fall in a larger tale―that of death in America. It’s a powerful tale that we usually keep hidden from our everyday lives until we have to face it. American Afterlife by Kate Sweeney reveals this world through a collective portrait of Americans past and present who are personally involved with death: obit writers in the desert, an Atlantic funeral voyage, a fourth-generation funeral director―even a midwestern museum that shows us our death-obsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another, revealing a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that’s by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny. “Sweeney’s quest for the “why” behind mourning rituals has given us a book in the best tradition of narrative journalism.”—Jessica Handler, author of Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing about Grief and Loss
Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510740856
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book H. H. Holmes written by Adam Selzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, now updated with a new afterword discussing Holmes' exhumation on American Ripper. H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of a murderer who has become one of America’s great supervillains. It reveals not only the true story but how the legend evolved, taking advantage of hundreds of primary sources that have never been examined before, including legal documents, letters, articles, and records that have been buried in archives for more than a century. Though Holmes has become just as famous now as he was in 1895, a deep analysis of contemporary materials makes very clear how much of the story as we know came from reporters who were nowhere near the action, a dangerously unqualified new police chief, and, not least, lies invented by Holmes himself. Selzer has unearthed tons of stunning new data about Holmes, weaving together turn-of-the-century America, the killer’s background, and the wild cast of characters who circulated in and about the famous “castle” building. This book will be the first truly accurate account of what really happened in Holmes’s castle of horror, and now includes an afterword detailing the author's participation in Holmes' exhumation on the TV series, American Ripper. Exhaustively researched and painstakingly brought to life, H. H. Holmes will be an invaluable companion to the upcoming Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio movie about Holmes’s murder spree based on Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.
Author : Caleb Wilde
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062465260
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Funeral Director written by Caleb Wilde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wise, vulnerable, and surprisingly relatable . . . funny in all the right places and enormously helpful throughout. It will change how you think about death.” —Rachel Held Evans, New York Times–bestselling author of Searching for Sunday We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed the family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial; the nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away; the funeral that united a conflicted community. Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde’s candid memoir offers an intimate look into the business of death and a new perspective on living and dying. “Open[s] up conversations about life’s ultimate concerns.” —The Washington Post “As a look behind the closed doors of the death industry, as well as a candid exploration of Wilde’s own faith journey, this book is fascinating and compelling.” —National Catholic Reporter “[A] stunner of a debut.” —Rachel Held Evans, author of Inspired
Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375896678
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It written by Adam Selzer and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algonquin “Ali” Rhodes, the high school newspaper’s music critic, meets an intriguing singer, Doug, while reviewing a gig. He’s a weird-looking guy—goth, but he seems sincere about it, like maybe he was into it back before it was cool. She introduces herself after the set, asking if he lives in Cornersville, and he replies, in his slow, quiet murmur, “Well, I don’t really live there, exactly. . . .” When Ali and Doug start dating, Ali is falling so hard she doesn’t notice a few odd signs: he never changes clothes, his head is a funny shape, and he says practically nothing out loud. Finally Marie, the school paper’s fashion editor, points out the obvious: Doug isn’t just a really sincere goth. He’s a zombie. Horrified that her feelings could have allowed her to overlook such a flaw, Ali breaks up with Doug, but learns that zombies are awfully hard to get rid of—at the same time she learns that vampires, a group as tightly-knit as the mafia, don’t think much of music critics who make fun of vampires in reviews. . . .
Author : Ronnie Frey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780368508738
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Doorways of Chicago written by Ronnie Frey and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is chock full of over 100 photographs of gorgeous doors, windows, architecture and more, seen by the eye of designer Ronnie Frey. Through this visual narrative, he will inspire you to find portals into other realms and meditative states. You will get a taste of the rich and diverse cultural history of Chicago architecture and its neighborhoods as well as find relevant, thought-provoking messages reminding you to stay in the moment.
Author : Brenda Rossini
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1787050572
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Graceland Cemetery in Chicago written by Brenda Rossini and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago's most outstanding memorial grounds. It's like a little town with a private lake and mausoleums lining its streets. The funerary architecture is spectacular. Here lie Chicago's deceased: baseball players, boxers, ballerinas, fire victims, detectives, politicians, department store owners and inventors. They passed through nature and on to eternity but not without a pawky connection to Sherlock Holmes.
Author : Michael O. Tunnell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064437248
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)
Download or read book Mailing May written by Michael O. Tunnell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays it's no big deal or a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a full day's pay. Here is the true story of how May got to visit her grandma, thanks to her won spunk, her father's ingenuity, and the U.S. mail. 00-01 CA Young Reader Medal Masterlist and 01 Colorado Children's Book Award (Pic. Bk Cat.)
Author : Chris Woodyard
Publisher : Kestrel Publications (OH)
ISBN 13 : 9780988192522
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Book of the Dead written by Chris Woodyard and published by Kestrel Publications (OH). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.
Author : Howard a. Kramer
Publisher : Complete Pilgrim, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781732508101
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Complete American Pilgrim written by Howard a. Kramer and published by Complete Pilgrim, LLC. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete American Pilgrim is a traveler's guide to 250 of the most sacred and historic religious sites in the United States. It is based on the travels and research of the author, who over the last few decades has visited countless religious sites around the world. The Complete American Pilgrim invites casual travelers and die-hard pilgrims alike to explore some of the most sacred destinations to be found in the United States. These places, chosen for their religious, historic and architectural importance encompass centuries of the American religious experience. From the historic colonial churches of New England to the magnificent missions of California, discover what hidden treasures of faith may be found in your own neighborhood.
Author : Christopher Vernon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952620201
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Graceland Cemetery written by Christopher Vernon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was founded in 1860, Chicago's Graceland was hailed as the most "modern" cemetery in existence and "the admiration of the world." Now known as the "Cemetery of Architects" because so many notable ones are buried there, Graceland remains a heavily visited attraction. This richly illustrated book uncovers how the influential and still beautiful landscape was developed over many generations, casting new light on the careers of several important landscape architects.
Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 1848362099
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Chicago written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Chicago is the ultimate travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions Chicago has to offer. Discover the pulsating metropolis of Chicago from the Gospel brunch at the House of Blues, a heavenly but fattening experience, to the Oak Street Beach, the glorious summertime playground in a somewhat unexpected location. Packed with detailed, practical advice on what to see and do in Chicago, this guide provides reliable, up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels in Chicago, Chicago's best bars and recommended restaurants, and tips on the best shopping and festivals in Chicago for all budgets. Featuring detailed coverage on a full range of attractions; from the Maxwell Street Market and Steppenwolf Theatre, to boat trips on the Chicago River and the Ravinia Festival, you'll find expert tips on exploring Chicago's amazing attractions with an authoritative background on Chicago's rich culture and history. Explore all corners of Chicago with the clearest maps of any guide. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Chicago.
