Description: A captivating guidebook that explores diverse and unique burial grounds across Arkansas
Brief description: Abby Burnett is an independent researcher who, as seen in the Arkansas Educational Television Network's 2010 documentary Silent Storytellers, studies such things as long-lost burial customs, tombstone symbolism, epitaphs, and the work of early stone carvers. She is author of Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950, published by University Press of Mississippi. She has written entries on graveyards, stone carvers, and early medicine for the online CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas, in addition to doing public speaking on all aspects of burial in Arkansas, her adopted state for the past forty years.
Review Quotes: Though Silent They Speak is a must-read. Burnett's passion for Arkansas history through the lens of cemetery studies is sure to deepen our understanding and inspire our next historical adventure across Arkansas. . . . This narrative is one that has long needed to be recorded in print.--Vincent S. Anderson, cohost of Retracing Our Roots on KTLO in Mountain Home, Arkansas