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Book Synopsis Your Gateway to Historic Oakland Cemetery by : Historic Oakland Foundation (Atlanta, Ga.)
Download or read book Your Gateway to Historic Oakland Cemetery written by Historic Oakland Foundation (Atlanta, Ga.) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Oakland Cemetery by : Tevi Taliaferro
Download or read book Historic Oakland Cemetery written by Tevi Taliaferro and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001-06-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To learn about a communitys past, the city cemetery is the place to visit. As Atlantas oldest permanent landmark, Oakland Cemetery holds the past, present, and future history of the Gateway to the South. Established in 1850 as a small municipal cemetery on the southeastern edge of town, Historic Oakland has evolved into 88 acres of art, history, architecture, gardens, and peaceful green space in the heart of downtown Atlanta. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as a significant example of an historic Victorian-era cemetery, Oakland is the final resting place of more than 70,000 deceased. People of both statewide and national importance have been buried throughout the cemeterys grounds in the past 150 years, including author Margaret Mitchell, golfing legend Bobby Jones, Confederate generals and soldiers, Georgia governors, Atlanta mayors, and ordinary people known only to their families. Historic Oakland Cemetery explores the history of both the cemetery and the people who were laid to rest there. From the famous to the infamous, the legendary to the ordinary, every person buried in the cemetery has a story to tell. For all of its emphasis on the past, Oakland remains an active cemetery, a public park, and an educational resource in which to study lush landscapes and Georgia history.
Book Synopsis Residents of Oakland Cemetery by : Janice McDonald
Download or read book Residents of Oakland Cemetery written by Janice McDonald and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first person buried at Oakland was laid to rest in May 1850, a month before the land was purchased by Atlanta to become its city cemetery. The fast-growing municipality eventually expanded the burial grounds to include 48 acres. Since then, what is now known as Historic Oakland Cemetery has become the final home to more than 70,000 residents. Among those are celebrated politicians, authors, and athletes and those whose impact has been felt but who are not as well recognized. A few of those residents include Gordon Burton Smith, who helped build the Panama Canal; Andre Steiner, who created the master plan for Stone Mountain; and Sally Connally Hardie, who helped run the National Trust of Scotland. They rest among gardened paths in elaborate mausoleums, exceptional funerary art, humble headstones, and sometimes unmarked graves.
Book Synopsis Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta's Most Tangible Link by :
Download or read book Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta's Most Tangible Link written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacred Symbols of Oakland by : Richard Waterhouse
Download or read book Sacred Symbols of Oakland written by Richard Waterhouse and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From scallop shells and tree stumps to saints, angels, and the anchor and cross, Richard Waterhouse, a longtime Oakland docent and the creator of a popular Oakland symbolism tour, illuminates the symbolism and sacred meanings prevalent in the Victorian era monuments. Historic Oakland Cemetery, founded in 1850 by the City of Atlanta, is nationally cherished for the splendor of its monuments, the breadth of its landscape, and the richness of its history. One of the most beautiful examples in the United States of the rural garden cemetery movement, Oakland's park like expanse still provides an escape for visitor's seeking a return of the antebellum beauty of the South. The history of Atlanta and the cemetery intertwine entreatingly offering the reader the pleasant experience of meandering through the park while reading the book. Dinny Harper Addison's striking photographs carefully capture the elaborate intricacies of the symbols and stand themselves as meditations on the grandeur of Oakland.
Download or read book Near the Exit written by Lori Erickson and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An ideal guidebook to facing the inevitable." Foreword Reviews After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings and Mayan temples, to a Colorado cremation pyre and Day of the Dead celebrations, to Maori settlements and tourist-destination graveyards. Erickson reflects on mortalityâ€"the ways we avoid it, the ways we cope with it, and the ways life is made more precious by accepting itâ€"in places as far away as New Zealand and as close as the nursing home up the street. Throughout her personal journey and her travels, Erickson  helps us to see that one of the most life-affirming things we can do is to invite death along for the ride.
Book Synopsis American Afterlife by : Kate Sweeney
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
Book Synopsis Historic Oakland Cemetery by : Gerit Battle
Download or read book Historic Oakland Cemetery written by Gerit Battle and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Headstones of Heroes by : Robert E. Zaworski
Download or read book Headstones of Heroes written by Robert E. Zaworski and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Restoration and History of Confederate Graves in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery
Download or read book Atlanta written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.
Book Synopsis A Walk In Oakland Cemetery by : Meghan Stewart
Download or read book A Walk In Oakland Cemetery written by Meghan Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Walk in Oakland Cemetery" is a collection of fictional and nonfictional shorts diving into the history of Atlanta's oldest cemetery. The collection explores factual events as well as fictional ghost stories taking place within Oakland Cemetery. This collection also features original illustrations by the author. * Proceeds from this book will be donated to support the preservation and restoration efforts at Oakland Cemetery.
Book Synopsis Oakland Cemetery: a Journal in Art by : Anna Trodglen
Download or read book Oakland Cemetery: a Journal in Art written by Anna Trodglen and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These drawings were done at historic Oakland Cemetery in Cabbage Town, Atlanta, GA. I drew the images inside in ink (no pencil work), one a week, from April to November 2016.Sometimes I stood in an anthill. Sometimes when it was raining, I sat in the car. Oakland Cemetery is a beautiful park and I present these pictures to invite you to enjoy it as such, whether you wish to color the images or not.
Book Synopsis An Oakland Cemetery ABC Book by : Peter Helfrich
Download or read book An Oakland Cemetery ABC Book written by Peter Helfrich and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step inside Oakland Cemetery's brick walls for a rhyming, A-to-Z tour of this historic Atlanta landmark's many uniquely beautiful sights.
Author :Jon Milan and Gail Offen, Foreword by Publisher :Arcadia Publishing ISBN 13 :1467104248 Total Pages :128 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (671 download)
Book Synopsis Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces by : Jon Milan and Gail Offen, Foreword by
Download or read book Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces written by Jon Milan and Gail Offen, Foreword by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan has two beautiful peninsulas that are connected by stories, legends, and mysteries. This book is the perfect glove compartment companion for exploring those paranormal parts of the Mitten State, as most of these hotels, restaurants, theaters, lighthouses, and other places are open to the public. This road trip to "the other side," filled with hauntings, ghost towns, and bizarre tales of murder and mayhem, draws from more than 300 years of Michigan history--from the notoriously haunted remote lighthouses like Seul Choix in the Upper Peninsula to Eloise, one of the most famous psychiatric asylums in America, to the legend of Lover's Leap on Mackinac Island. What Purple Gang member still hangs out in Clare? What spirits lurk at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village? Here is a guide to all that and more, including Houdini's Detroit connections, the poisonings at Cass Corridor's Alhambra, and paranormal activity at Detroit's historic Fort Wayne. Puzzles are still waiting for a solution; Ripley's Believe It or Not once offered $100,000 to anyone who could solve the strange phenomenon of the Paulding Lights near Watersmeet.
Book Synopsis Articles of Association of Oakland Cemetery by : Oakland Cemetery Association (Saint Paul, Minn.)
Download or read book Articles of Association of Oakland Cemetery written by Oakland Cemetery Association (Saint Paul, Minn.) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Goodnight Oakland Cemetery by : Peter Helfrich
Download or read book Goodnight Oakland Cemetery written by Peter Helfrich and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect introduction to Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery, told in the fashion of the classic bedtime story.
Book Synopsis Articles of Association of Oakland Cemetery by : Oakland Cemetery Association (Saint Paul, Minn.)
Download or read book Articles of Association of Oakland Cemetery written by Oakland Cemetery Association (Saint Paul, Minn.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
