My contributor copy of Death’s Garden Revisited has arrived. It’s a beautiful, profusely illustrated volume featuring forty essays about personal relationships with graveyards & cemeteries, edited by Loren Rhoads. My essay is titled “The Treasure Hunter” — and some of you might be able to guess what that’s about...
“Death’s Garden Revisited collects forty
powerful personal essays — accompanied by full-color photographs — to
illuminate the reasons people visit cemeteries. Spanning the globe from
Iceland to Argentina and from Portland to Prague,
Death’s Garden Revisited explores the complex web of
relationships between the living and those who have passed before.
“Genealogists and geocachers, travelers and tour guides, anthropologists,
historians, pagan priestesses, and ghost hunters all venture into cemeteries
in these essays. Along the way, they discover that cemeteries don’t only
provide a rewarding end to a pilgrimage, they can be the perfect location for
a first date or a wedding, the highlight of a family vacation, a cure for
depression, and the best possible place to grasp history. Not to mention that
cemetery-grown fruit is the sweetest.”
