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The Speaking Stone : Stories Cemeteries Tell /

"The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, following curiosity and accident wherever...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Griffith, Michael, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cincinnati : University of Cincinnati Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A State of Ungress: Composing as Rambling
  • The Absent Guest: Leon Van Loo
  • Bake Visibly!: Gustav Huenefeld
  • "A Great Awkward Bunglehood of Woman": Fanny Wright
  • Interlude: The Bank-Shot Unmemoir
  • "Death's Taxicab": Willard Hess and Martin Hale Crane
  • Accidental Charon: Jacob Strader, Dred Scott, and Body-Snatching
  • "Due Allowance for Foam": Martha McClellan Brown and the Ohio Women's Crusade
  • "Another Well-Picked Skeleton": Homunculi, Mail-Order Tree Stumps, Petrified Logs, and the Many, Many Charles Millers
  • Outlook Hazy: Laura Pruden, Harry Houdini, and Arthur Conan Doyle Interrogate the Spirits
  • Ghosts of the Walldogs: Gus Holthaus
  • Interlude: The Crypto Auto-Obituary
  • "And They Did Kill Her by Inches": The Strange Case of Carrie Elder
  • The Sculptor, His Son, the Odd Fellows, and the Weird Assassin: Louis Rebisso(s) and Oscar Mundhenk
  • Six Degrees of Jonathan Cilley
  • The Permeable Earth.