January 2016 Morbid Curiosity Book Club Selection

A different sort of book club for those of us who are interested in cemeteries, gravestones, mourning customs and death and dying. Join us for coffee and conversation: When: Wednesday, January 27 , 2015

Time: 7:30-8:30 pm

Where: BAKA Cafe Gallery Lounge (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2256+Bloor+St+West%2C+Toronto%2C+ON%2C+ca)

2256 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON

Cost: free but we ask that you purchase something from the cafe in appreciation for them allowing us to host the meeting there.

Our selection for January 2016 is "Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel" by Loren Rhoads:

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Almost every tourist destination has a graveyard. You go to Yosemite National Park: there’s a graveyard. You go to Maui: graveyards everywhere you look. The Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park: both graveyards. The number one tourist destination in Michigan has three cemeteries. America’s best-preserved Gold Rush ghost town has five. Gettysburg is a National Park because it has a graveyard. Some graveyards are even tourist destinations in themselves: the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague, the colonial burying grounds of Boston, and Kennedy’s eternal flame in Arlington National Cemetery. Jim Morrison’s grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery ranks in the top five tourist sites of Paris.

Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel contains 35 graveyard travel essays, which visit more than 50 cemeteries, churchyards, and gravesites across the globe.