Ian Adams has twenty-one photography books and more than sixty-five Ohio calendars to his credit. He conducts nature and garden photography seminars, workshops, and slide programs throughout North America and taught digital photography at Ohio State University's Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster from 2010 to 2019.Randall Lee Schieber is a professional photographer based in Columbus, Ohio. He specializes in editorial, architectural, location, and travel photography and has published eight books and fifteen calendars. His work has appeared in a variety of local and national publications.Robin L. Smith is the research director at Columbus Business First newspaper. She is the coauthor (with Randall Lee Schieber) of Columbus: A Photographic Portrait and Ohio: Then and Now, and the author of Columbus Ghosts: Historical Haunts of Ohio's Capital and Columbus Ghosts II: More Central Ohio Haunts.

A fantastic addition to the existing literature on cemetery landscapes. The photographs are absolutely beautiful. - Timothy G. Anderson, Ohio University This Place of Silence uses Ohio’s rich collection of cemeteries to leave these burial places anything but silent. Its collection of images, people, and places in their historical and design contexts gives readers more than a book about cemeteries-it is about the American experience itself. - Jeffrey E. Smith, Lindenwood University The beauty of Ohio’s cemeteries and burial grounds is forever immortalized in This Place of Silence. Adams, Schieber, and Smith should be commended for their impressive dedication to highlight and illustrate these sacred areas that are so often overlooked.(Echoes Magazine)

• PREFACEINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1: NATIVE AMERICAN AND EARLY BURIAL GROUNDSCHAPTER 2: THE EVOLUTION OF CEMETERIESCHAPTER 3: ARCHITECTURE, STATUARY, AND SYMBOLISMCHAPTER 4: THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENTCHAPTER 5: MILITARY AND INSTITUTIONAL CEMETERIESCHAPTER 6: DISTINCTIVE TRADITIONS, DISTINCTIVE PLACESA GUIDE TO THE CEMETERIESSUGGESTED READINGSINDEX

Ian Adams has twenty-one photography books and more than sixty-five Ohio calendars to his credit. He conducts nature and garden photography seminars, workshops, and slide programs throughout North America and taught digital photography at Ohio State University's Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster from 2010 to 2019.Randall Lee Schieber is a professional photographer based in Columbus, Ohio. He specializes in editorial, architectural, location, and travel photography and has published eight books and fifteen calendars. His work has appeared in a variety of local and national publications.Robin L. Smith is the research director at Columbus Business First newspaper. She is the coauthor (with Randall Lee Schieber) of Columbus: A Photographic Portrait and Ohio: Then and Now, and the author of Columbus Ghosts: Historical Haunts of Ohio's Capital and Columbus Ghosts II: More Central Ohio Haunts.

A fantastic addition to the existing literature on cemetery landscapes. The photographs are absolutely beautiful. - Timothy G. Anderson, Ohio University This Place of Silence uses Ohio’s rich collection of cemeteries to leave these burial places anything but silent. Its collection of images, people, and places in their historical and design contexts gives readers more than a book about cemeteries-it is about the American experience itself. - Jeffrey E. Smith, Lindenwood University The beauty of Ohio’s cemeteries and burial grounds is forever immortalized in This Place of Silence. Adams, Schieber, and Smith should be commended for their impressive dedication to highlight and illustrate these sacred areas that are so often overlooked.(Echoes Magazine)

• PREFACEINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1: NATIVE AMERICAN AND EARLY BURIAL GROUNDSCHAPTER 2: THE EVOLUTION OF CEMETERIESCHAPTER 3: ARCHITECTURE, STATUARY, AND SYMBOLISMCHAPTER 4: THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENTCHAPTER 5: MILITARY AND INSTITUTIONAL CEMETERIESCHAPTER 6: DISTINCTIVE TRADITIONS, DISTINCTIVE PLACESA GUIDE TO THE CEMETERIESSUGGESTED READINGSINDEX

Ian Adams has twenty-one photography books and more than sixty-five Ohio calendars to his credit. He conducts nature and garden photography seminars, workshops, and slide programs throughout North America and taught digital photography at Ohio State University's Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster from 2010 to 2019.Randall Lee Schieber is a professional photographer based in Columbus, Ohio. He specializes in editorial, architectural, location, and travel photography and has published eight books and fifteen calendars. His work has appeared in a variety of local and national publications.Robin L. Smith is the research director at Columbus Business First newspaper. She is the coauthor (with Randall Lee Schieber) of Columbus: A Photographic Portrait and Ohio: Then and Now, and the author of Columbus Ghosts: Historical Haunts of Ohio's Capital and Columbus Ghosts II: More Central Ohio Haunts.

A fantastic addition to the existing literature on cemetery landscapes. The photographs are absolutely beautiful. - Timothy G. Anderson, Ohio University This Place of Silence uses Ohio’s rich collection of cemeteries to leave these burial places anything but silent. Its collection of images, people, and places in their historical and design contexts gives readers more than a book about cemeteries-it is about the American experience itself. - Jeffrey E. Smith, Lindenwood University The beauty of Ohio’s cemeteries and burial grounds is forever immortalized in This Place of Silence. Adams, Schieber, and Smith should be commended for their impressive dedication to highlight and illustrate these sacred areas that are so often overlooked.(Echoes Magazine)

• PREFACEINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1: NATIVE AMERICAN AND EARLY BURIAL GROUNDSCHAPTER 2: THE EVOLUTION OF CEMETERIESCHAPTER 3: ARCHITECTURE, STATUARY, AND SYMBOLISMCHAPTER 4: THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENTCHAPTER 5: MILITARY AND INSTITUTIONAL CEMETERIESCHAPTER 6: DISTINCTIVE TRADITIONS, DISTINCTIVE PLACESA GUIDE TO THE CEMETERIESSUGGESTED READINGSINDEX