My new book, This Place of Silence: Ohio’s Cemeteries and Burial Grounds, was released in July, 2024 by Ohio University Press, and I will be conducting a slide program and a discussion about the book at a “Meet the Author” event at Lakewood Public Library in northeast Ohio on Wednesday, September 25 at 7:00 pm.
This book is my second collaboration with co-photographer Randall Lee Schieber, with whom I also produced the photographs for Ohio in Photographs: A Portrait of the Buckeye State, published by Ohio University Press in June, 2017. Both of these books include landscape photographs taken in all 88 Ohio counties, with Randy Schieber covering Ohio’s southern 44 counties and yours truly producing the images in the 44 northern counties of the Buckeye State. Randy and I both had large files of stock Ohio landscape photographs we were able to use for Ohio in Photographs, but each of us traveled more than 25,000 miles during 2021, 2022, and 2023 to create the 240 cemetery images used in This Place of Silence. Much of this imagery was taken during the Covid-19 pandemic, but fortunately researching, investigating, and traveling to cemeteries around Ohio is not a social activity and the Covid-19 pandemic had a minimal impact on our cemetery photography for the new book.
I will also be signing copies of This Place of Silence, which retails for $29.95. Cash, personal checks, and credit cards are all acceptable as payment.
Lakewood Public Library on Cleveland’s West Side is also currently hosting an exhibit of some of my tree prints, through the end of September, after which the exhibit will be moving to a new location in Moreland Hills, Ohio.
For more information on this event, please visit the Lakewood Public Library website.