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From the earliest burial mounds to today's simple street shrines, Boneyards: Detroit Under Ground reveals how Metro Detroiters have interred their dead and honored their memory. Author Richard Bak investigates the history of dozens of local cemeteries and also explores the cultural and business side of dying, from old-fashioned home funerals to the grave-robbing "resurrectionists" of the nineteenth century to modern funeral directors. Bak presents a mix of historic and contemporary photographs to illustrate each site or event alongside lively prose descriptions. Taken together, Bak's informative and often surprising historical snapshots span the entire metro area and three centuries of history. Boneyards visits the area's largest cemeteries-including Elmwood, Woodmere, Mount Olivet, Mount Elliott-and showcases some of their most intricate and unusual monuments. Bak also introduces readers to abandoned graveyards like William Ganong Cemetery in Westland, Millar Cemetery in Clinton Township, and Beth Olem Cemetery inside the GM Poletown Plant. Bak includes photos of some of the city's largest funerals, from those of automaker Henry Ford and orchestra conductor Ossip Gabrilovitch to civil rights icon Rosa Parks and rapper DeShaun "Proof" Holton. In addition, Bak tells the stories of the ordinary and the unclaimed in local cemeteries, along with the social changes like the creation of a "drive-through" funeral home in the 1970s, the "white flight" of interred family members from Detroit cemeteries, and the trend of local cemeteries adding graves that face Mecca to accommodate the growing Muslim population. Ultimately, Bak proves that our treatment of the dead reveals much about our culture and our values. Boneyards will be intriguing reading for Detroit historians, local residents, and anyone interested in the customs of memorializing past generations.… (plus d'informations)
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This is a handsome coffee table sized book of the history of Detroit's cemeteries and memorials, is full of black and white photos and small stories of heroes and villains of Detroit. It starts with the burials of people in the 1830's cholera epidemic through today.
A lot of what is in this book can be generalized to the United States as a whole. I learned that the embalming did not become common until the 1880s. Many people sick from the cholera were buried alive. People who were in comas were also thought to be dead. My own great grandfather, although not in Detroit was put outside in the dead of winter when he was thought to be dead. Later when a relative came back to take measurements for his coffin, the relative noticed that he was alive.
There are also stories that are specific to Detroit, the funerals and burials of the greats of the automobile industry, of the funeral customs of different ethnic minorities, of grave snatchers and style of headstones through history, the burial of the poor and prisoners.
Richard Bak states that our treatment of the dead shows our values and culture. You can see for yourself the shift through the history of the burials.
I recommend this book for anyone interested in Detroit or the history of cemeteries in United States. ( )
From the earliest burial mounds to today's simple street shrines, Boneyards: Detroit Under Ground reveals how Metro Detroiters have interred their dead and honored their memory. Author Richard Bak investigates the history of dozens of local cemeteries and also explores the cultural and business side of dying, from old-fashioned home funerals to the grave-robbing "resurrectionists" of the nineteenth century to modern funeral directors. Bak presents a mix of historic and contemporary photographs to illustrate each site or event alongside lively prose descriptions. Taken together, Bak's informative and often surprising historical snapshots span the entire metro area and three centuries of history. Boneyards visits the area's largest cemeteries-including Elmwood, Woodmere, Mount Olivet, Mount Elliott-and showcases some of their most intricate and unusual monuments. Bak also introduces readers to abandoned graveyards like William Ganong Cemetery in Westland, Millar Cemetery in Clinton Township, and Beth Olem Cemetery inside the GM Poletown Plant. Bak includes photos of some of the city's largest funerals, from those of automaker Henry Ford and orchestra conductor Ossip Gabrilovitch to civil rights icon Rosa Parks and rapper DeShaun "Proof" Holton. In addition, Bak tells the stories of the ordinary and the unclaimed in local cemeteries, along with the social changes like the creation of a "drive-through" funeral home in the 1970s, the "white flight" of interred family members from Detroit cemeteries, and the trend of local cemeteries adding graves that face Mecca to accommodate the growing Muslim population. Ultimately, Bak proves that our treatment of the dead reveals much about our culture and our values. Boneyards will be intriguing reading for Detroit historians, local residents, and anyone interested in the customs of memorializing past generations.
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A lot of what is in this book can be generalized to the United States as a whole. I learned that the embalming did not become common until the 1880s. Many people sick from the cholera were buried alive. People who were in comas were also thought to be dead. My own great grandfather, although not in Detroit was put outside in the dead of winter when he was thought to be dead. Later when a relative came back to take measurements for his coffin, the relative noticed that he was alive.
There are also stories that are specific to Detroit, the funerals and burials of the greats of the automobile industry, of the funeral customs of different ethnic minorities, of grave snatchers and style of headstones through history, the burial of the poor and prisoners.
Richard Bak states that our treatment of the dead shows our values and culture. You can see for yourself the shift through the history of the burials.
I recommend this book for anyone interested in Detroit or the history of cemeteries in United States. (