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Chargement... Living Among Headstones: Life in a Country Cemetery (2005)par Shannon Applegate
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A combination of essays on family life and care of the local cemetery. I found the sections on the cemetery much more interesting due to her interactions with the towns people that used it and the history of the area. I was really less interesting in the information on her family which would have been better served in a different volume. ( ) Living Among Headstones is a series of essays about the author’s life in the small town of Yoncalla, Oregon. The book opens with Applegate taking over custody of the family owned Applegate Pioneer Cemetery from her father, the colorful Colonel Rex Applegate. Stories of Applegate family members and other Yoncalla denizens are interspersed with historic information about Victorian cemeteries, drawings and photos provided by Applegate’s cousin and other locals. Readers who enjoy the Lake Wobegon stories on NPR would probably find these stories charming, but this book was just not my cup of tea. Having grown up in a small town (500 people; about 1/3 the size of Applegate's Yoncalla), I have no fantasies about the romanticiscm of it all. I would have preferred more Oregon history, and/or more detailed portraits of the pioneer ancestors in the Applegate family. This family is well known in Oregon history. They established the Applegate Trail, a southern route to Oregon, and many geographical features have been named for various family members. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In 1997, Shannon Applegate was bequeathed a small cemetery in western Oregon. The neglected five acres were not only the burial site for generations of her family but also the designated resting ground for many in the nearby, down-on-its-luck logging town. Living Among Headstones chronicles the author's experiences as she takes charge of this sacred land and finds herself plotting graves, consoling families, and confronting the funeral industry. Filled with humor, singular events, pathos, and unexpected smiles, the pages offer historical asides and moving personal stories. For example, Shannon explores the language and customs of funerals as she agonizes over how to approach families who have covered graves with plastic flowers and inappropriate ornaments. In doing so, she contemplates the myriad ways cultures past and present approach the dead. Living Among Headstones is, in part, about rural cemeteries in contemporary America, but the sum is a meditation on how we long for thosewe love to have a continuing place in our world, and it focuses as much on life as death. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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