Gone Home: Southern Folk Gravestone Art

by Jack Solomon and Olivia Solomon

Book Overview

Four decades ago, folklorists Jack and Olivia Solomon began documenting Southern cemeteries, recording the names, lives, and epitaphs of thousands of the deceased. The volume they now share with us is not a Book of the Dead, but a Book of Life. The Solomons reveal here their love and respect for the "final resting places" of this world. In these pages are recorded the sorrow for a lost child, the anger over the murder of a brother, the strengths...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588381161
• ISBN13: 9781588381163
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.1" x 9.9"