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Round-trip to deadsville : a year in the funeral underground / Tim Matson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matson, Tim, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--United States.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- United States.
- Undertakers and undertaking--United States.
- Undertakers and undertaking.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., [2000]
- Summary:
- When it hit him that he wouldn't live forever, Matson decided to build his own coffin and set out on the road, where he encountered an cabal of mysterious characters who populate the funeral underground: a gravedigger, undertaker, organist, florist and cremator. His memoir takes readers on a tour of the Big Question of death, offering both chills and laughs along the way. Photos.
- Contents:
- Dark Thoughts ix
- The Coffin Maker 1
- The Undertaker 8
- The Graveyard Guide 18
- The Stone Carver 23
- The Lawyer 30
- The Astrologer 34
- The Anatomist 42
- The Screenwriter 51
- The Crusader 58
- Ginseng 70
- The Organist 75
- The Florist 81
- The Gravedigger 89
- The Abenaki 97
- The Balloon Man 107
- The Cremator 119
- The Grandson 130
- The Wood Turner 138.
- ISBN:
- 1890132179
- 1890132918
- OCLC:
- 43615802
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