Boneyards: Detroit Under Ground
The prolific Richard Bak has written about most living subjects in southeastern Michigan, so now he has turned his attention to death. Boneyards: Detroit Under Ground is a fascinating look at how we have died in Detroit going back to 1701. With Bak s excellent research and writing, and numerous historic and contemporary photos, Boneyards is quirky, interesting, haunting and, yes, lively. --Bill McGraw, co-editor of The Detroit AlmanacA book of surpassing beauty and importance, rich in history, humanity, and gravity Boneyards: Detroit Under Ground is that rarest of things: a commingling of text and images, so finely wrought and perfectly realized that it produces a permanent gift and indispensable record. --Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking and Apparition & Late Fictions"There s nothing macabre about this latest venture from the prolific Dearborn author, historian and journalist. Rather Boneyards, with its nearly 140 contemporary and historical photographs, is a thoughtful, intriguing look at how we in Metro Detroit care for our dead and honor their memories....Through Bak s lens, how we memorialize the deceased or how we neglect them reflects who we are as a society....Rather than avoiding the unknown, Boneyards allows us to embrace it." --Marney Rich Keenan, Detroit News