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NEW AND CURRENT TITLES FROM GOOSEPEN PRESS
SACRED SYMBOLS OF OAKLAND
A Guide to the Many Sacred Symbols of Atlanta's Oldest Public Cemetery
Richard Waterhouse
Photographs by Dinny Harper Addison
Foreword by Mary Ann Eaddy
Cloth: $24.95 | 96 pages | 7" by 9" | ISBN 978-0-9793631-3-9 | August 2010
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Historic Oakland Cemetery, founded in 1850 by the City of Atlanta, is nationally cherished for the splendor of its monuments, the breadth of its landscape, and the richness of its history.
One of the most beautiful examples in the United States of the Rural Garden Cemetery Movement, Oakland’s parklike expanse still welcomes visitors to escape for a picnic or stroll, and the often sizable, highly embellished gravestones, mausolea, and monuments of the Victorian era encourage – through their elaborate symbolism – reflection on this life and the one beyond.
From scallop shells to tree stumps, to saints, angels, and the anchor & cross, Richard Waterhouse, a longtime Oakland docent and the creator of a popular Oakland symbolism tour, illuminates the symbols’ sacred meanings as intended by the Victorians, while revealing the oftentimes classical and other pagan derivations. The history of Atlanta and the cemetery meanders entertainingly through the book.
Dinny Harper Addison’s striking photographs carefully document the symbols and stand themselves as meditations on the grandeur of Oakland.
For further information about the cemetery, visit Historic Oakland Foundation.
For further information about Richard Waterhouse, the symbolism of cemeteries, and the Waterhouse Symbolism newsletter, visit Waterhouse Symbolism.
Visit Dinny Addison Photography for a galleries of her international work.
Sacred Symbols of Oakland ($24.95, check or money order)
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 GEORGE RABB
The Civil War Memoir
of a Catawba County Tar Heel
Edited by Rebecca Ikerd Alghrary
Foreword by Michael Hill
Cloth: $18.95 | 80 pages | 5" by 8"
ISBN 978-0-9793631-1-5 | August 2008
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“When I told my father, he wanted to persuade me not to go. ‘No, don’t go, George, and I will send you to school,’ he told me. He warned me that I was not going into a frolic, but I wanted the excitement.” George Washington Rabb, of Newton in Catawba County, North Carolina, enlisted in the Confederate Army as a sharpshooter on April 27, 1861. He was nineteen years old. Standing on the shore at Sewell’s Point, he would watch the Merrimac and Monitor duel to a draw, “a dog fall,” he describes it. His regiment, the Twelfth, would fight in many of the Civil War’s major battles – The Seven Days, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg – and Rabb would lose his leg at Fisher’s Hill. At eighty-eight years old he recorded his deployments. A remarkable memory and eye for detail distinguish Rabb’s account, vivifying the war’s brutality and its interludes of mercy, as retiring across the Potomac after Sharpsburg, he shoots down McClellan’s pursuit “right and left” and nearly jams “the river with dead men and horses”; accepts an enemy invitation to a game of Seven Up during a flag of truce; scavenges the pockets of fallen Federals; protects a prisoner, whose hat bears the near-miss of a minie ball; and is attended, during his convalescence as a new amputee, by a red-headed visitor with “curls hanging down her back” whom Rabb would marry five and a half decades later. With a foreword by Michael Hill, Research Supervisor at the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, and an introduction by Rebecca Ikerd Alghrary, the editor and Rabb’s grandniece, George Rabb: the Civil War Memoir of a Catawba County Tar Heel “will lend,” as Alghrary writes, “to further appreciation of our Union and the cost of its preservation. And the cost was high.”
"Considering the time it takes to plow through their voluminous pages, many books on the Civil War resemble a soldier's heavily laden knapsack. That's not the case with George Rabb: The Civil War Memoir of a Catawba County Tar Heel, whose 80 pages offer a cameo of the adventures of a Confederate soldier from the Old North State and read like a front porch tale of yesteryear."
- Alan Hodge, Our State Magazine, March 2009
George Rabb ($18.95) is available directly from the publisher (please add $4.00 shipping & handling and for in-state purchases 8% sales tax, $1.52)
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THE LIVING TRADITION
North Carolina Potters Speak
Interviews by Michelle Francis & Charles “Terry” Zug III
Photographs by Rob Amberg
Edited by Denny Hubbard Mecham
Awarded "Best Documentary Publication" at the 2010
North Carolina Museums Council Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC
Published for the North Carolina Pottery Center by Goosepen Press
and available through NCPC: www.ncpotterycenter.com
Cloth | 192 pages | ISBN 978-0-9793631-2-2 | March 2009
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Twenty interviews with some of North Carolina’s most distinguished potters intimately reveal the “aspirations and attitudes” of clay-working in a contemporary, diverse tradition. From the “fast nickel” or the “slow dime” and the practicalities of pricing and selling, to technical discussions of kiln building, clay processing, throwing, glazing, and firing, to the spirituality of the creative process and the medium of clay as a “reflection of life,” potters from across the state vivify the struggle and reward of their lives and work to interviewers Michelle Francis and Charles “Terry” Zug III.
Luminous photographs by Rob Amberg complement the artists’ own words – revelatory of character and ripe with anecdote – in this culmination of a documentary project by the North Carolina Pottery Center to promote and protect North Carolina’s unique pottery-making history.
 THE FURNITURE WARS
How America Lost a
Fifty Billion Dollar Industry
Michael K. Dugan
Designed and composited by Goosepen Press
and available through Amazon.
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Currently chair of the business school at Lenoir-Rhyne University and former president and CEO of Henredon Furniture, Michael Dugan delineates the boom, bust, and potential revitalization of the American furniture industry with an insider's keen perspective and a raconteur's taut and lively line.
Softcover | 452 pages | ISBN 978-1-4392251-0-3
 HEROES OF RED, WHITE & BLUE
Wilkes County Veterans Vol. II
Edited by Diana Perry
With assistance of Marilyn Payne,
Brenda Combs, Judith Walsh,
Rose Andrews, and Amanda Williams
Published for the Wilkes Heritage Museum by Goosepen Press
and available through WHM: www.wilkesheritagemuseum.com
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Softcover | 192 pages | September 2009
CONTEMPORARY POTTERY FROM NORTH CAROLINA'S
AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITIES
Sally Peterson
Photographs by Nathan Moehlmann
Published for the North Carolina Pottery Center by Goosepen Press
and available through NCPC: www.ncpotterycenter.com
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Softcover | 70 pages | ISBN 978-0-9793631-4-6 | October 2009
 HEROES OF RED, WHITE & BLUE
Wilkes County Veterans Vol. I
Edited by Laurie Brintle Hayes
Published for the Wilkes Heritage Museum by Goosepen Press
and available through WHM: www.wilkesheritagemuseum.com
Softcover | 192 pages | 2007
Second printing November 2009
SOULFIRE: LYRICS & MEDITATIONS
Blake Brandes, aka DJ Decryption, "The James Joyce of Hip Hop"
Published for Blake Brandes and available at www.myspace.com/djdecryption
"I wanted to create the Ulysses of hip-hop albums - a work with so much meaning, allusion, and intertextuality that it can be studied in depth as a literary text. On the other hand, I strongly believe that the soul of the beat and fire of the delivery need not be sacrificed for such a project." - DJ Decryption
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Softcover | 60 pages | 2007
UPCOMING TITLES
HART SQUARE
One Man's Passionate Preservation of North Carolina's Pioneer Heritage
Dr. Robert Hart, with Nathan Moehlmann
For more than thirty years, Dr. Robert Hart of Hickory has rescued and restored Carolina life of the nineteenth century, recreating an entire village, Hart Square - the largest collection of original historic log buildings in the United States. Hart Square, a coffee table book, will feature detailed photographs and histories of the structures along with hundreds of images of the artisans and docents who enliven the village once a year on the fourth Saturday in October.
PELTON & PORTER
Benjamin Porter
Panoramic photographer Benjamin Porter’s rephotographic survey of Herbert Pelton’s early twentieth-century Asheville and Buncombe County panoramic photographs.
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