Richard F Veit, Mark Nonestied

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones

History in the Landscape. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 320 Seiten
ISBN 0813542367
EAN 9780813542362
Veröffentlicht September 2008
Verlag/Hersteller Rutgers University Press
34,50 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

A tour of New Jersey's burial sites from the seventeenth century onwards. This book shows how headstones are much more than place markers for the deceased. It explains what cemeteries and their gravemarkers say about different individuals and the communities in which they lived.

Portrait

RICHARD VEIT is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University. He is the author of Digging New Jersey's Past: Historical Archaeology in the Garden State, winner of the 2003 New Jersey Historic Preservation Award.
MARK NONESTIED has been a staff member of the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission since 1991. He currently serves as the Director of Exhibits and Programs at a historic site in Piscataway.