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" Tales from Kentucky funeral homes / "
William Lynwood Montell.
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BL
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965225
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b719595
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Montell, William Lynwood,1931-
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Tales from Kentucky funeral homes /\ William Lynwood Montell.
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Lexington :: University Press of Kentucky,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (198 pages)
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0813139430
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: 0813173612
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: 1282937510
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: 9780813139432
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: 9780813173610
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: 9781282937512
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0813125677
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9780813125671
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| Contents
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Funeral and burial practices through the years -- Funeral and burial folk customs -- Funeral humor and mistakes -- Personal practice stories -- Memories of family funeral businesses -- The bereaved -- Biographies of storytellers.
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In Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, William Lynwood Montell has collected stories and reminiscences from funeral home directors and embalmers across the state. These accounts provide a record of the business of death as it has been practiced in Kentucky over the past fifty years. The collection ranges from tales of old-time burial practices, to stories about funeral customs unique to the African American community, to tales of premonitions, mistakes, and even humorous occurrences. Other stories involve such unusual aspects of the business as snake-handling funerals, mistaken identities, and.
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Death-- Social aspects-- Kentucky, Anecdotes.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies-- Kentucky, Anecdotes.
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Undertakers and undertaking-- Kentucky, Anecdotes.
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Death-- Social aspects.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies.
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HISTORY-- United States-- State Local-- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Manners and customs.
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REFERENCE-- Etiquette.
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Undertakers and undertaking.
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Kentucky, Social life and customs, Anecdotes.
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Kentucky.
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395.2/309769
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HD9999.U53K46 2009eb
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