![]() ![]() "Dennis McCann, one of Wisconsin’s best storytellers, not only knows where the bodies are buried, he knows that many of them have great tales to tell. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() ![]() Following the clues in tips from readers, unusual epitaphs, and well-worn stones, Dennis McCann finds the melancholy, the humorous, the tragic, and the universal in Wisconsin's cities of the dead. Sometimes the dead are recalled with only a first name, and sometimes no name at all. A patch of Belgian graves now resides beneath a parking lot while the headstones cluster nearby, and the inhabitants of a Bayfield cemetery were unearthed by a raging flood. Football great John Heisman is buried here, as is the state's smallest man, a woman whose tombstone names her murderer, and the boy who would not tell a lie and paid the price. Even in a graveyard, peace proves hard to come by: Wisconsin's Native American tribes have fought for undisturbed grounds and proper burial. From the ornate tombs of Milwaukee beer barons to displaced Chippewa graves and miniscule family plots, Badger Boneyards: The Eternal Rest of the Story unearths the stories of Wisconsin. The bodies are buried, but the stories are not. ![]()
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