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While exploring the cities and cemeteries of the American Southeast, contrasting to those of his early New England upbringing, sparked a year-long project to preserving the memory of those otherwise forgotten.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"buried-louisville-kentucky-president-to-paupers-graves-of-the-city","title":"Buried Louisville, Kentucky: President to Paupers, Graves of the City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouisville, Kentucky's cemeteries starkly illustrate the city's socioeconomic divides, revealing a history of disparity through their headstones and monuments.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe history-rich city of Louisville, Kentucky, offers stunning examples of haves and have-nots. Nowhere is this social chasm displayed more plainly than in its cemeteries. The 154 cemeteries within the city demonstrate how the socioeconomic factors that separate us in life follow us into death. A National Cemetery, including the ornate crypt of a United States President and his wife, stands in stark contrast to the neglected City Cemetery. Less than fifteen minutes away in a nearly 300-acre majestic cemetery, a barbed-wire-topped wall separates it from a deeply troubled and neglected 28-acre lot. Across the city, examples of the chasm that is Louisville is highlighted tombstone to tombstone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis photo series takes the reader on an exploration of the headstones, tombs, vaults, and monuments of Louisville’s dead—persons of note, stillborn children, entire families, war veterans, and more, lost forever to time. Across these grave markers, one finds genuine pieces of art, erased by time and neglect. 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Presidents, “witches,” enslaved peoples, and all of those in between can be found from Connecticut to Maine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe landscape of these states has shifted from a sprawling wooded space to lush and ample farmland and bustling cities. Inside the graveyards, cemeteries, and burial plots, war wages between memories and time. Now four centuries deep, these memorials are fighting to survive. The punishing weather of the area and urban sprawl combine to push these memorials back into the ground to be lost forever. Through photographs we can capture these cherished lost ones and give them the chance to live on in a new way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross New England, marble, bronze, granite, wood, and other stones stand and fight to maintain the memory of those buried below them. 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This last expanse of Old Florida is standing strong against the possibly inevitable modernization of Florida’s Forgotten Coastline.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStretching from St. Mark’s to Mexico Beach, the communities within the coast share a long and history-rich past. Exploring the graveyards, cemeteries, and other burial places across this region offers a blueprint to the area’s many changes through the years. The markers and graves that fill the burying yards are put to the test, having to fight not only against time but the brutal Florida heat, sun, and weather. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFantastic sculptures, handmade markers, and even paper can be observed in these cemeteries. Hurricanes, wars, disease outbreaks, and transformation of the area itself have all come at a human cost, a cost that the Forgotten Coastline doesn’t forget. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book combines photographs and real-life stories to take the reader into the background of those buried along the Forgotten Coastline and how they helped shape what is there today and its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[authors] Author(s): \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/casey-fredette\"\u003eCasey Fredette\u003c\/a\u003e[\/authors]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buried America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42396053962834,"sku":"9781634996358","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/9171\/2594\/files\/9781634996358.jpg?v=1778413812"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.through-time.com\/collections\/casey-fredette\/florida.oembed","provider":"America Through Time","version":"1.0","type":"link"}