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Image one: Happy Halloween
Image two: E-book titled Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture (1989) - synopsis: Cemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large.
Image three: E-book titled The Untold Story of Champ: A Social History of America's Loch Ness Monster (2012) - synopsis: Robert E. Bartholomew embarks on a search for the Champ monster, both of the Lake Champlain firsthand and through period sources and archives, many never before published. Although he finds the trail obscured by sloppy journalism, local leaders motivated by tourism income, and bickering monster hunters, he weighs the evidence to craft a rich, colorful history of Champ. From the nineteenth century, when Champ was a household name, to 1977, when he appeared in Sandra Mansi’s controversial photograph, Bartholomew covers it all. Real or imaginary, Champ and his story will fascinate believers and skeptics alike.
