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Markers XXV

Obituary: Gary L. Collison (1947-2007)
by Richard E. Meyer (7 pages)

Death, Burial, and Memorialization in Colonial New England: The Diary of Samuel Sewall
by Laurel K. Gabel (36 pages)

Scottish Discoid  Gravemarkers: The Origins and Classification of a Rare Type of Mortuary Artifact
by George Thomson (22 pages)

Beth El: Michigan's Oldest Jewish Cemetery
by Ernest L. Abel, Michael L. Kruger, and Jason R. Abel (28 pages)

"Gothic" Cast-Iron Gravemarkers of New Hampshire (and Beyond)
by William Lowenthal (27 pages)

The Year's Work in Cemetery and Gravemarker Studies: An International Bibliography
by Richard E. Meyer 

Paper; 143 pages. 
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Markers I (1980)
Wanted: The Hook-And-Eye Man - by Ernest Caulfield (39 pages)

1. Ithamar Spauldin, Stonecarver of Concord, Massachusetts - by C. R. Jones (6 pages)

2. Colorado Wooden Markers - by James Milmoe (6 pages)

3. Openwork Memorials of North Carolina - by Francis Y. Duval and Ivan B. Rigby (16 pages)

4. Wisconsin's Wrought Iron Markers - by Julaine Maynard (4 pages)

5. The John Stevens Shop - by Esther Fisher Benson (4 pages)

6. Resurrecting the Epitaph - by Diana Hume George and Malcolm A. Nelson (14 pages)

7. Recording Cemetery Data - by F. Joanne Baker, Daniel Farber, Anne G. Giesecke (20 pages)

8. The Care of Old Cemeteries and Gravestones - by Lance R. Mayer (24 pages)

9. Protective Custody: The Museum's Responsibility for Gravestones - by Robert P. Emlen (6 pages)

10. The Willow Tree and Urn Motif - by Blanche M. G. Linden (8 pages)

11. The Archaeological Significance of Mausoleums - by James B. Richardson III and Ronald C. Carlisle (10 pages)

12. Mystery, History, and an Ancient Graveyard - by Melvin Williams (5 pages)

13. Resources for the Classroom Teacher: an Annotated Bibliography - by Mary Anne Mrozinski (2 pages)

14. Gravestones and Historical Archaeology: A Review Essay - by David H.Watters (6 pages)

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Markers II (1982)

1. "And the Men Who Made Them:" The Signed Gravestones of New England -by Sue Kelly and Anne Williams (104 pages)

2. Scottish Gravestones and the New England Winged Skull - by Betty Willshire (10 pages)

3. The JN Carver - by David Watters (18 pages)

4. Joseph Barbur, Jr.: The Frond Carver of West Medway - by Michael Cornish (16 pages)

5. Stonecarvers of the Narragansett Basin: Stephen and Charles Hartshorn of Providence - by Vincent F. Luti (31 pages)

6. Folk Art on Gravestones: The Glorious Contrast - by Charles Bergengren (16 pages)

7. The Carvers of Portage County, Wisconsin, 1850-1900 - by Phil Kallas (16 pages)

8. The Example of D. Aldo Pitassi: Evolutionary Thought and Practice in Contemporary Memorial Design - by Robert Prestiano (18 pages)

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Markers III (1984)

1. Where the Bay Meets the River: Gravestones and Stonecutters in the River Towns of Western Massachusetts, 1690-1810 - by Kevin Sweeney (46 pages)

2. Speaking Stones: New England Grave Carving and the Emblematic Tradition - by Lucien L. Agosta (24 pages)

3. A Particular Sense of Doom: Skeletal "Revivals" in Northern Essex County, Massachusetts, 1737-1784 - by Peter Benes (22 pages)

4. The Colburn Connections: Hollis, New Hampshire Stonecarvers, 1780-1820 - by Theodore Chase and Laurel Gabel (54 pages)

5. "And the Men Who Made Them": The Signed Gravestones of New England 1984 Additions - by Sue Kelly and Anne Williams (4 pages)

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Markers IV (1987)

1. The New York and New Jersey Gravestone Carving Tradition - by Richard F. Welch (54 pages)

2. Rural Southern Gravestones: Sacred Artifacts in the Upland South Folk Cemetery - by Gregory Jeane (30 pages)

3. "Safe in the Arms of Jesus": Consolation on Delaware Children's Gravestones, 1840-99 - by Deborah A. Smith (22 pages)

4. Death Italo-American Style: Reflections on Modern Martrydom - by Robert McGrath (8 pages)

5. New Mexico Village Composantos - by Nancy Hunter Warren (16 pages)

6. Stonecutters and Their Works - edited by Jessie Lie Farber (46 pages) 

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Markers V (1988)

1. "Md. by Thomas Gold": The Gravestones of a New Haven Carver - by Meredith M. Williams and Gray Williams, Jr. (59 pages)

2. Pennsylvania German Gravestones: An Introduction - by Thomas E. Graves (36 pages)

3. Early Pennsylvania Gravemarkers - Photographs and text by Daniel and Jessie Lie Farber (26 pages)

4. Ontario Gravestones - by Darrell A. Norris (28 pages)

5. Research Report on the Graveyards of Kings County, Nova Scotia - by Deborah Trask and Debra McNabb (18 pages)

6. Poems in Stone: Tombs of Louis Henri Sullivan - by Robert A. Wright (42 pages)

7. Seven Initial Carvers of Boston 1700-1725 - by Theodore Chase and Laurel K. Gabel (23 pages)

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Markers VI (1989)

1. The John Dwight Workshop in Shirley, Massachusetts, 1770-1816 - by Eloise Sibley West (32 pages)

2. Tributes in Stone and Lapidary Lapses: Commemorating Black People in Eighteenth- and-Nineteenth-Century America - by Angelika Krüger-Kahloula (70 pages)

3. Afro-American Gravemarkers in North Carolina - by M. Ruth Little (34 pages)

4. Communities of the Dead: Tombstones as a Reflection of Social Organization - by Paula J. Fenza (22 pages)

5. Composantos: Sacred Places of the Southwest - by Laura Sue Sanborn (22 pages)

6. United Above Though Parted Below: The Hand as Symbol on Nineteenth Century Southwest Ontario Gravestones - by Nancy-Lou Patterson (28 pages)

7. An Early Christian Athlete: The Epitaph of Aurelius Eutychus of Eumeneia - by Scott T. Carroll (24 pages)

8. Book Review: The Colonial Burying Grounds of Eastern Connecticut and the Men Who Made Them , by James A. Slater. Book Review by Peter Benes (8 pages) 

Markers VIII (1991)

All articles by Ernest J. Caulfield on Connecticut Carvers and their Work, edited by James A. Slater

1. Ernest J. Caulfield-Biographical Sketch (8 pages)

2. Connecticut Gravestone Articles by Ernest J. Caulfield:

1. George Griswold (1633-1704) (8 pages)

2. The Stanclift Family (1643-1785) (22 pages)

3. Ebenezer Drake (1739-1803) (12 pages)

4. "The Glastonbury Lady" (8 pages)

5. The Thomas Johnsons (32 pages)

6. Joseph Johnson (1698-1783?) (10 pages)

7. "The Bat" (8 pages)

8. The Mannings (20 pages)

9. The Collins Family (12 pages)

10. Charles Dolph (1776-1815) (12 pages)

11. The Lambs (1724-1788) (12 pages)

12. John Hartshorn (1650-c. 1738) vs. Joshua Hempstead (1678-1758) (24 pages)

13. The Kimballs (16 pages)

14. The Bucklands (25 pages)

15. Three Manning Imitators (16 pages)

16. The Loomis Carvers (28 pages)

17. The Colonial Gravestone Carvings of Obadiah Wheeler (40 pages)

18. Wanted: The Hook-and-Eye Man (27 pages)

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Markers XI (1994)

1. Ritual, Regalia, and Remembrance: Fraternal Symbolism and Gravestones- by Laurel K. Gabel (27 pages)

2. Louisiana Cemeteries: Manifestations of Regional and Denominational Identity - by Tadashi Nakagawa (24 pages)

3. Solomon Brewer: A Connecticut Valley Yankee in Westchester County - by Gray Williams, Jr. (30 pages)

4. 'Where Valor Proudly Sleeps': Theodore O'Hara and 'Bivouac of the Dead' - by Thomas C. Ware (30 pages)

5. Slavery in Colonial Massachusetts as Seen Through Selected Gravestones - by Tom and Brenda Malloy (30 pages)

6. Merrimac Valley Style Gravestones: The Leighton and Worster Families -by Ralph L. Tucker (26 pages)

7. Monumental Ambition: A Kentucky Stonecutter's Career - by Deborah A. Smith (18 pages)

8. 'And Who Have Seen the Wilderness': The End of the Trail on Early Oregon Gravemarkers - by Richard E. Meyer (34 pages)

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Markers XXI  (2004)

1.  Obituary: Theodore Chase (1912-2003) - Laurel Gabel

2.  Carving a Path to Freedom: Stonecarver Sebastian "Boss" Hammond, Nineteenth-Century
     Maryland Slave and Freeman - Mary Ann Ashcraft (28 pages)
3.  Gravemarkers and Memorials of King Philip's War - Tom and Brenda Malloy (26 pages)

4.  Judah Monis's Puzzling Gravestone as a Reflection of his Enigmatic Identity
     - David Mayer Gradwohl (32 pages)

5.  In the Bronx with Melville (poem) - Henry Hughes (2 pages)

6.  Museum in the Garden: Mount Auburn Cemetery and American Sculpture, 1840-1860 
    - Elise Madeleine Ciregna (48 pages)

7.  'In the Palm of Nature's Hand': Ralph Waldo Emerson's Address at the Consecration of 
     Sleepy Hollow Cemetery - Introduced and edited by Ronald A. Bosco 
     and Joel Myerson (26 pages)

8.  Twenty-Year Subject Index, Markers I-XX - Compiled by Gary Collison  (24 pages)

9.  The Year's Work in Gravemarker and Cemetery Studies: An International Bibliography 
     - Compiled by Gary Collison (14 pages)

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Markers VII (1990)

1. Symbolic Cemetery Gates in New England - by Harriette M. Forbes (16 pages)

2. Portfolio of Mrs. Forbes' Cast-Iron Gates - by Margot Gayle (16 pages)

3. "The Fencing Mania": The Rise and Fall of Nineteenth- Century Funerary Enclosures - Blanche Linden-Ward (24 pages)

4. Boston's Historic Burying Grounds Initiative: 'Eliot Burying Ground,' 'Dorchester North Burying Ground,' 'Copp's Hill Burying Ground' (44 pages)

5. Funerary Monuments and Burial Patterns of Colonial Tidewater Virginia, 1607-1776 - by Elizabeth A. Crowell and Norman Vardney Mackie III (36 pages)

6. Charles Miller Walsh: A Master Carver of Gravestones in Virginia, 1865-1901 - by Martha Wren Briggs (34 pages)

7. Notes on the Production of Rustic Monuments in the Limestone Belt of Indiana - Warren E. Roberts (22 pages)

8. Stonecarvers of Monroe County, Indiana 1828-1890 - Jennifer Lucas (18 pages)

9. In the Way of the White Man's Totem Poles: Stone Monuments Among Canada's Tsimshian Indians 1879-1910 - by Ronald W. Hawker (20 pages)

10. Origins and Early Development of the Celtic Cross - Douglas Mac Lean (43 pages) 

Paper; 281 pages, 158 illustrations.
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Markers IX (1992)

1. Recollections of a Collaboration: A Tribute to the Art of Francis Duval - by Ivan B. Rigby with Katherine M. Noordsij (22 pages)

2. The Mullicken Family Gravestone Carvers of Bradford, Massachusetts, 1663-1768 - by Ralph L. Tucker (36 pages)

3. The Green Man as an Emblem on Scottish Tombstones - by Betty Willsher (20 pages)

4. The Center Church Crypt of New Haven, Connecticut: A Photographic Essay - Photographs by Daniel and Jessie Lie Farber; Text by Gray Williams, Jr. (26 pages)

5. Purchase Delay, Pricing Factors, and Attribution Elements in Gravestones from the Shop of Ithamar Spauldin - by John S. Wilson (28 pages)

6. Silent Stones in a Potter's Field: Grave Markers at the Almshouse Burial Ground in Uxbridge, Massachusetts - by Ricardo J. Elia (26 pages)

7. Thomas Crawford's Monument for Amos Binney in Mount Auburn Cemetery, "A Work of Rare Merit" - by Lauretta Dimmick (38 pages)

8. Acculturation and Transformation of Salt Lake Temple Symbols in Mormon Tombstone Art - by George H. Schoemaker (20 pages)

9. Language Codes in Texas German Graveyards - by Scott Baird (40 pages)

10. The Disappearing Shaker Cemetery - by Thomas A. Malloy and Brenda Malloy (18 pages) 

Paper; 288 pages, 160 illustrations.
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Markers X (1993)

1. A Chronological Survey of the Gravestones Made by Calvin Barber of Simsbury, Connecticut - by Stephen Petke (52 pages)

2. The Chinese of Valhalla: Adaptation and Identity in a Midwestern American Cemetery- by C. Fred Blake (38 pages)

3. Fifty Years of Reliability: The Stonecarving Career of Charles Lloyd Neale (1800-1866) in Alexandria, Virginia - by David Vance Finnell (26 pages)

4. The Jewish Cemeteries of Louisville, Kentucky: Mirrors of Historical Processes and Theological Diversity through 150 Years - by David M. Gradwohl (37 pages)

5. The Lamson Family Gravestone Carvers of Charlestown and Malden, Massachusetts - by Ralph L. Tucker (68 pages)

6. The Protestant Cemetery in Florence and Anglo-American Attitudes Toward Italy - James A. Freeman (24 pages)

Paper; 256 pages, 124 illustrations.
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Markers XII (1995)

1. 'A Piece of Granite That's Been Made in Two Weeks': Terra-Cotta Gravemarkers from New Jersey and New York, 1875-1930 - by Richard Veit (30 pages)

2. Adam and Eve Scenes on Kirkyards in the Scottish Lowlands: An Introduction and Gazetteer - by Betty Willsher (61 pages)

3. The Adkins-Woodson Cemetery: A Sociological Examination of Cemeteries as Community - by Gary S. Foster and Richard L. Hummell (26 pages)

4. The Joshua Hempstead Diary - by Ralph L. Tucker (26 pages)

5. Contemporary Gravemarkers of Youths: Milestones of Our Path Through Pain to Joy - by Gay Lynch (16 pages)

6. 'Best Damm Dog We Ever Had': Some Folkloristic and Anthropological Observations on San Francisco's Presidio Pet Cemetery - by Richard E. Meyer and David M. Gradwohl (46 pages)

7. Year's Work in Gravestone/Cemetery Studies - compiled by Richard E. Meyer (14 pages) 

Paper; 235 pages, 111 illustrations.
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Markers XIII (1996)

1. Jotham Warren, The Plainfield Trumpeter - by James A. Slater (43 pages)

2. Tree-Stump Tombstones: Traditional Cultural Values and Rustic Funerary Art - by Susanne S. Ridlen (30 pages)

3. From Jonathan Hartshorne to Jeremiah Lane: Fifty Years of Gravestone Carving in Coastal New Hampshire - by Glenn A. Knoblock (38 pages)

4. Taylor, Texas, City Cemetery: A Language Community - by Scott Baird (28 pages)

5. John Huntington, Gravestone Carver of Lebanon, Connecticut - by Ann F. Shepardson (81 pages)

6. Year's Work in Gravestone Studies - compiled by Richard E. Meyer (9 pages)

Paper; 243 pages, 171 illustrations.
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Markers XIV (1997)

1. Cemetery Symbols and Contexts of American Indian Identity: The Grave of Painter and Poet T. C. Canon - by David M. Gradwohl (33 pages)

2. Gravemarkers of the Early Congregational Ministers in North Central Massachusetts - Tom and Brenda Malloy (42 pages)

3. A Modern Gravestone Maker: Some Lessons for Gravestone Historians - by Barbara Rotundo (24 pages)

4. The Remarkable Crosses of Charles Andera - by Loren N. Horton (24 pages)

5. The Pratt Family of Stonecutters - by Ralph L. Tucker (14 pages)

6. Under Grave Conditions: African-American Signs of Life and Death in North Florida -by Robin Franklin Nigh (32 pages)

7. Year's Work in Gravemarker/Cemetery Studies - compiled by Richard E. Meyer (27 pages)

Paper; 223 pages, 107 illustrations.
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Markers XV (1998)

1. Benditcha Sea Vuestra Memoria: Sephardic Jewish Cemeteries in the Caribbean and Eastern North America - by David Mayer Gradwohl (29 pages)

2. Scriptural Stones and Barn Mending: At the Grave of Herman Melville - by Kenneth Speirs (8 pages)

3. The Gravestone Carving Traditions of Plymouth and Cape Cod - by James Blachowicz (166 pages)

4. Language and Ethnicity Maintenance: Evidence of Czech Tombstone Inscriptions - by Eva Eckert (30 pages)

5. Aboriginal Australian Burials in Christian Missions - by Karolyn K. Wrightson (30 pages)

6. The New Deal's Landscape Legacy in Kansas Cemeteries - by Cathy Ambler (22 pages)

7. Chinese Graves and Gravemarkers in Hong Kong - Chun-shing Chow and Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather (32 pages)

8. The Year's Work in Gravemarker/Cemetery Studies - compiled by Richard E. Meyer (19 pages)

Paper; 356 pages, 164 illustrations.
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Markers XVI (1999)

1. Obituary: Daniel Farber (1906-1998) - by James A. Slater (5 pages)

2. Eighteenth Century Gravestone Carvers of the Narragansett Basin: John and James New- by Vincent F. Luti (98 pages)

3. Eternal Celebration in American Memorials - Jonathan L. Fairbanks (34 pages)

4. Joshua Sawyer - by John Fitzsimmons (2 pages)

5. 'I Never Regretted Coming to Africa': The Story of Harriet Ruggles Loomis' Gravestone- by Laurel K. Gabel (34 pages)

6. 'Fencing ye Tables': Scotch-Irish Ethnicity and the Gravestones of John Wight - by David H. Watters (36 pages)

7. Murder in Massachusetts: It's Written in Stone - by Tom and Brenda Malloy (32 pages)

8. The Year's Work in Gravemarker/Cemetery Studies - compiled by Richard E. Meyer (22 pages)

Paper; 275 pages, 139 illustrations.
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Markers XVII (2000)

1. Obituary, Warren E. Roberts (1924-1999) - by Simon J. Bronner

2. Domesticating the Grave: Italian-American Memorial Practices at New York's Calvary Cemetery - by Joseph J. Imguanti (24 pages)

3. William Coye: Father of the Plymouth Carving Tradition - by James Blachowicz, in collaboration with F. Vincent Luti (76 pages)

4. The Quaker Graveyard - by Silas Weir Mitchell (2 pages)

5. Applications of Developing Technologies to Cemetery Studies - by Gary Foster and Richard L. Hummel (14 pages)

6. John Solomon Teetzel and the Anglo-German Gravestone Carving Tradition of 18th Century Northwestern New Jersey - by Richard F. Veit (38 pages)

7. By Their Characters You Shall Know Them: Using Styles of Lettering to Identify Gravestone Carvers - by Gray Williams, Jr. (44 pages)

8. The Year's Work in Gravestone/Cemetery Studies - compiled by Richard E. Meyer (30 pages)

Paper; 253 pages, 151 illustrations
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Markers XVIII (2001)

1. Qualtrill's Three Graves and Other Reminders of the Lawrence Massacre-Randall M. Thies (29 pages)

2. Egyptian Revival Funerary Art in Green-Wood Cemetery-Elizabeth Broman (38 pages)

3. Poem: A Cemetery-Emily Dickinson (2 pages)

4. The Carvers of Kingston, Massachusetts-James Blackowicz (76 pages)

5. Gravestones and the Linguistic Ethnography of Czech-Moravians in Texas-Eva Eckert (42 pages)

6. Stylistic Variation in the Western Front Battlefield Cemeteries of World War I Combatant Nations-Richard E. Meyer (66 pages)

7. The Year's Work in Gravemarker/Cemetery Studies: An International Bibliography (30 pages)

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