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Cemetery Travel lecture this Sunday

Apr.13.2012
Cemetery Travel lecture this Sunday

I'm giving my first lecture about cemeteries as travel destinations this weekend! Cypress Lawn Cemetery, one of the most beautiful local cemeteries, invited me to speak about my travels around the world to see graveyards.

Cypress Lawn calls me the "ultimate cemetery believer and enthusiast" who has "embarked upon a mission to make cemeteries a travel destination once again." Come add some graveyards to your must-see list and share your favorite cemetery travel destinations.

The free lecture begins at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 15th at Cypress Lawn Cemetery, 1370 El Camino Real, Daly City, California 94014. Light refreshments will be served. To RSVP or for more information, call 650-550-8810.

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Reading your work in public
I'm teaching a class on performing your writing at the Writing Salon this summer: Reading, Performing or Presenting in Public: Let Your Voice Be Heard   Saturday, July 14th,...
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One of my earliest memories is coming into my neighbor’s house with the girl next door and seeing a coffin with a candelabra full of burning candles on the television.  The...
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I’m trying a new system to kick myself into gear.  Last year, a friend wrote about HabitForge (www.habitforge.com), which is a free website where you register a goal and it...
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May.09.2012 - 6:11 am
In response to: The “Secret” Red Room Method and Red Room’s History
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Thanks for the history, Huntington!  I didn't start attending the Red Room salon until 2004.  You got the...
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The book is available from Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/The-Haunted-Mansion-Project-Year/dp/1615725792/ref=...
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I've been on the other side of the editing desk, so I know what you mean about the flood of submissions.  It can...

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Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
Published by Gothic Beauty magazine
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues is a good read for those looking for salacious and dark material, and for people who tend to think in terms of "What if...?"  Alternately...
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  • If you should visit Yosemite…

    Guide to the Yosemite Cemetery by Hank Johnston My rating: 4 of 5 stars Everywhere you go, there’s a cemetery. Case in point: tucked into Yosemite Valley is a tiny graveyard where pioneers, Native Americans, and summer visitors rest in peace. The graveyard is a pretty, peaceful p
  • If you should visit Yosemite...

    by My rating: Everywhere you go, there's a cemetery. Case in point: tucked into Yosemite Valley is a tiny graveyard where pioneers, Native Americans, and summer visitors rest in peace. The graveyard is a pretty, peaceful place, despite the 3 million visitors to Yosemite National Park each year. A visit to the Yosemite Pioneer Cemetery is much enhanced by bringing along this little guidebook, which is available from the Visitor Center gift shop. It provides biographies of the Valley's permanent residents, along with photographs and history lessons. The stories it tells are the best part. The book also provides a map, so you can stand at the grave as you read about the person beneath your feet. As far as I'm concerned, this is the perfect souvenir for a trip to Yosemite. My only quibble is that I wish it began with more history of the valley, so that the people who stay there now were put into a wider perspective. The guidebook is available to view online . There's one Amazon listing for a used copy, but it's overpriced. You could try writing to the Yosemite Visitor Center to see if you can mail order a copy directly.

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Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. Curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. It is a way to affect change -- even to initiate global change -- on a personal level.”
—Loren's introduction to Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues

About Loren

For 10 years, I edited the nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. Scribner published Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues in 2009. Now I'm blogging about graveyards as travel destinations at Cemetery Travel (http://cemeterytravel.com). A collection of my cemetery...
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