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The perennially best-selling guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of our most enduring cultural icons, now revised to include 25 additional entries. Where Are They Buried? has directed legions of fervent fans and multitudes of the morbidly curious to the gravesides, monuments, memorials, and tombstones of the nearly 500 celebrities and antiheros included in the book. By far the most complete and well-organized guide on the subject, every entry features an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts; a detailed description of the death; and step-by-step directions to the site of the grave, including not only the name of the cemetery but the specific roads and trails to take within the cemetery to reach the gravesite. The book also provides a handy index of grave locations organized by state, province, and country to make planning a grave-hopping road trip easy and efficient. Additional entries include Steve Jobs, Whitney Houston, Neil Armstrong, Elizabeth Taylor, Dick Clark and twenty more.… (más)
PUBLISHED IN 2003 COPY. (I guess there's a 2019 copy) The author researched deaths, found graveside locations, & then added his own 2 cents about famous peoples deaths. It was kind of like reading an entertainment magazine. Some good info on the famous deceased and backstory on feuding, etc. I didn't care for the authors opinion & speculation he added into a lot of the research. He wasn't around in 1867-1959 so adding his own gossip about the deceased was a turn off. The end of the book has a chapter entitled "How To Find Where Someone is Buried" which basically gives you instruction on how to lie to funeral or cemetery personnel so they'll give out famous people's plot numbers. For example, inquiring about your dear great aunt Mrs. Grace Allen (George Burn's wife) to find out where George is buried since their plots are next to each other or asking where Leonard Oswold who died in the 60's plot is & the clerk saying they have a Lee Oswold (bingo, now you know where the assassin is buried) A little underhanded & lurid. ( )
An amusing read it as I think somebody noted good for the short periods you may be spending with the book in your home. I suppose the factors that held me back from giving more stars are the authors periodic commentary about some of his deceased subjects. For example when talking about Lee Harvey Oswald he says clearly the forensic evidence could not support Oswald as the single gunman. To have the author interject their own opinions detract from the flow of the book and is an annoying distraction. When talking about Bella Lugosi he throws in the comment that a wooden stake or silver bullet wasn’t necessary after all. Some of the comments are sometimes entertaining but mostly they fall flat. ( )
This was a great read! The author's travels and investigations are interesting to read. I think my overwhelming impression was "Wow, a whole lot of well-known folks have died since I was born!" Somehow, that's a weird feeling. Another book on the shelf that my family will browse through on occasion and enjoy. ( )
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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. --John Wayne's Epitaph
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Don Schellhammer, Sr., who died in November 2001 after a lengthy illness. At 58, Don was buried at St. Anne's Cemetery in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.
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Introduction: As I recall, the seasonably cool morning of December 9, 1980, became bitterly cold, for me anyway, right around ten o'clock.
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But no site offers concise directions to the graves - Where are they Buried? is the only comprehensive source for that information. Good luck.
The perennially best-selling guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of our most enduring cultural icons, now revised to include 25 additional entries. Where Are They Buried? has directed legions of fervent fans and multitudes of the morbidly curious to the gravesides, monuments, memorials, and tombstones of the nearly 500 celebrities and antiheros included in the book. By far the most complete and well-organized guide on the subject, every entry features an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts; a detailed description of the death; and step-by-step directions to the site of the grave, including not only the name of the cemetery but the specific roads and trails to take within the cemetery to reach the gravesite. The book also provides a handy index of grave locations organized by state, province, and country to make planning a grave-hopping road trip easy and efficient. Additional entries include Steve Jobs, Whitney Houston, Neil Armstrong, Elizabeth Taylor, Dick Clark and twenty more.
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