Here to stay
Subtitle: reflections on the dead in a small-town cemetery
By: John E. Hallwas with photographs by Kathy Nichols
Contributors: Nichols, Kathy, 1948-
Publisher: Illinois Heritage Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Macomb, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781467527552
Subjects: Cemeteries; Oakwood Cemetery (Macomb, Ill.); Biography; History
Description: "Look into the lives of past residents in a downstate Illinois community - presenting the most varied array of small-town folks since Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology appeared."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical note (p. 223).
Table of contents: title: Preface - Acknowledgments; title: Oakwood Cemetery : living with the dead; title: Permanent residents; title: Theatre of memory, Essays: Oakwood's forerunner; The Old Macomb Cemetery; Alex Holmes, L.T. Brooking, and Macomb's "Silent city"; The Decoration Day tradition and sacred unity in Macomb; Oakwood Cemetery and community leadership; title: Maps of Oakwood Cemetery.