Flaming Hearts, Weeping Angels

Sally Asher is a New Orleans–based photographer and award-winning writer whose work has appeared in such publications as Newsweek, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Preservation in Print, and New Orleans Magazine. She owns and operates her tour company, Red Sash Tours, which specializes in authentic cultural New Orleans tours and hosts a podcast, Eat, Drink & Be Buried, about the city’s customs, cultures, and curiosities. Asher is president of Tomb Do You Love, a nonprofit that restores New Orleans’s cemeteries one tomb at a time. She is a proud member of the Crescent City Odd Fellows #73 and is involved in many Mardi Gras krewes. Asher lectures about New Orleans’s history through various museums and cultural institutes and holds two master’s degrees from Tulane University. When she’s not writing, researching, or sharing her love of New Orleans history, Asher enjoys spending time with her family and friends, eating and drinking at as many local restaurants and bars as she can, dancing to brass band music, making quilts for her loved ones, and walking along the bayou with her two amazing dogs, Huckleberry and Zuzu. This is her sixth book.

Flaming Hearts & Weeping Angels: Secrets & Symbols in New Orleans’ Cemeteries
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Forward: Written by Michael Duplantier
Introduction & Cemetery Etiquette
 GRAVE FACTS
Jesus is Not Buried in New Orleans: Common Fallacies of New Orleans’ Cemeteries
New Orleans Necropolis: The Cemeteries
Dancing with the Dead: Cemetery Terminology & Traditions in New Orleans.
Tomb it May Concern: How to Bury a Body.
A Dying Art: How to Protect & Preserve Your Tomb.
Bury Me in Consecrated Ground: The Legalities of the Dead.
Anybody Can Dig a Hole, but Not Everybody Can Dig a Grave: Interview with Gravediggers. 
Where the Famous People of New Orleans Rest
CEMETERY SAGAS
Ain’t Dere No More: Forgotten Bodies in the French Quarter & Beyond
The Saffron Scrouged: Yellow Fever in New Orleans.
Halt! This Here is the Empire of Death: The Paris Influence.
Grave Merchandise: All Saints’ Day & the Cost of Mourning.
Ashes to Ashes: Cremation in New Orleans.
Permanent Posturing, From Lincoln to Uncle Lionel: Embalming and Its Extremes.
Crossing the Rainbow Bridge: Pet Cemeteries.
Culture Vultures: Theft, Vandalism, & Body Snatching
EXQUISITE EMBLEMS
Unassuming to Ostentatious: Architecture Glossary.
Flaming Hearts & Weeping Angels: Symbols in New Orleans Cemeteries
FINIS
Recommendations
Acknowledgements & Appreciation
About the Author
Cemetery List
Index