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  • Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery: Tracing Lives and Memorial Customs in a Southern Graveyard

    Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery: Tracing Lives and Memorial Customs in a Southern Graveyard - Paperback

    Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery: Tracing Lives and Memorial Customs in a Southern Graveyard - Paperback

    By June Hadden Hobbs, Joe Depriest, and Hal Bryant

About Hal Bryant Books

June Hadden Hobbs is a professor of English and director of Undergraduate Research at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. She is the author of many articles on tombstones and American women's hymns and the former editor of Markers, the international journal of the Association for Gravestones Studies. In 2017 she received the Harriette Merrifield Forbes Award for outstanding contributions to the field of gravestone studies, the highest honor a gravestone scholar can receive. Joe DePriest, has had a 50-year newspaper career, including work as a reporter for the Shelby Star, the Charlotte Observer, and other local newspapers. His North Carolina Newspaper Association Awards include one for an account of his 1994 return to Vietnam, where he served a tour of duty as an Army journalist. He lives in Cramerton, North Carolina. Hal Bryant is a retired college art and photography instructor. He lives in Shelby, North Carolina.