Many of our AGS members are avid readers and have shelves full of cemetery/gravestone related books.
If that is you, please join us for our AGS Virtual Book Club. Each month, we'll focus on a book about cemeteries, gravestones, mourning customs, funerary practices or death and dying. We hope to include books written by AGS members, classics in our field, newly published books, as well as novels that feature the subjects mentioned above. Grab a coffee or a tea, cozy up, and join our conversation!
We generally meet on the third Sunday of every month, at 7:00 eastern time.
Meeting information is included in our monthly e-newsletter. Sign up here: https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001bWApi8U865sSjjV8lvo-efCqKiAdSUV3-mcAUMdUlOinDpu5edf_9oBinstqR3-sVfEVnsnFGAIlS9XewPoRdz8Zah8JvONZ79pyiijDuTo%3D
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Books we'll be reading in 2023:
January 2023: The Victorian Celebration of Death by James Stevens Curl
February 2023: Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral by Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays
March 2023: The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America by Jeffrey Smith
April 2023: We'll be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravediggers Daughter by Rachael Hanel
May 2023: Mapping & Documenting Cemeteries by Pamela Goffinet
June 2023: Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950 by Abby Burnett
July 2023: Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement by James R. Cothran
August 2023: Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister
September 2023: The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers by Sherene Baugher and Richard Veit
October 2023: Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom
November 2023: Necropolis: London and Its Dead by Catharine Arnold
December 2023: Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery by Blanche M G Linden
2024 AGS Book Club Selections:
January 2024: Death’s Garden Revisited by Loren Rhoads
February 2024: Love Cemetery, Unburying the Secret History of Slaves by China Galland
Your hosts: Alma Sinan and Ashlynn Rickord Werner
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Past AGS Book Club Selections (for your personal library):
January 2022: 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die by Loren Rhoads
February 2022: City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris by Carolyn Campbell
March 2022: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
April 2022: Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery: Tracing Lives and Memorial Customs in a Southern Graveyard by June Hadden Hobbs, Joe DePriest, and photos by Hal Bryant
May 2022: Death: A Graveside Companion edited by Joanna Ebenstein
June 2022: Going out in Style: The Architecture of Eternity by Douglas Keister
July 2022: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
August 2022: Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy
September 2022: The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds by Marilyn Yalom and Reid S. Yalom
October 2022: Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial by Penny Colman
November 2022: The Aftermath of Battle: The Burial of the Civil War Dead by Meg Groeling
December 2022: The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell by Michael Griffith
