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Blog Name: Whistling Past The Graveyard
Url: http://taphofiles.blogspot.com/
Language: English
Topics: Cemeteries, Urban Planning, Land Use
Description: Where do we go when we die? This blog explores what urban planners and others are doing (and not doing) about cemeteries and land use.
Popularity: 4 Followers

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SCI gets OK to buy Vegas mortuary
A settlement has been reached to allow Service Corp. International, the nation's largest funeral business, move forward to buy a Las Vegas mortuary. The deal requires some FTC approval.Here's SCI's news release on the matter.And here are a couple more reports:Las Vegas Review Journal
Philadelphia cemetery plans Jewish section
West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia will establish a Jewish section.
New Hampshire inmates research cemetery
Also from New Hampshire, a story about inmates at a jail who are researching a nearby paupers' cemetery.Note: Someday, when my time is my own again -- and not my discrete math class' -- I'll begin work on a piece about how better to employ ex-cons, and even those now serving time, in cemeteries.
Cemetery mapper in New Hampshire
Here's a nice feature story about a New Hampshire man who "maps" cemeteries using GPS and other tools.
Author of On Hallowed Ground
Here is a brief talk by author Robert Poole on his new book, On Hallowed Ground, about Arlington National Cemetery, from the Amazon Web site.

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