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By Douglas Keister

whilst author/photographer Douglas Keister's ebook tales in Stone got here out in 2004, sundown journal said, "Keister has performed for cemetery exploration what Audubon did for birding." because then, cemetery fanatics were clamoring for extra. Keister has responded them with ceaselessly Dixie, an exploration of 13 of the South's most sensible cemeteries and 40 extraordinary southerners who've selected to name the South their everlasting domestic. perpetually Dixie supplies cemetery explorers GPS instructions to the graves of well-known southerners equivalent to Martin Luther King Jr., Elvis Presley, Johnny funds, Tammy Wynette, Colonel Sanders, Casey Jones, Johnny Mercer, and dozens extra. additionally featured are fascinating and distinct graves of standard electorate like Thelma Holford of Jonesboro, Arkansas, who commissioned an Italian marble statue of herself and her loved puppy, Bunnie. perpetually Dixie is a smart present for all those that name America's southern states domestic and if you happen to could have moved yet whose hearts, souls, and roots nonetheless stay within the South.

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