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From John F. Llewellyn, CEO Forest Lawn Memorial Parks, Los Angeles, author of A Cemetery Should Be Forever and Saying Goodbye Your Way.
"David Petry's history of the Santa Barbara Cemetery captures the cemetery's long and deep ties to the community from its inception to the current time. He successfully chronicles the people involved as well as the evolution of the cemetery over the years, resulting in a compelling account of why the Santa Barbara Cemetery is a special place."
From David Charles Sloane, author of The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History.
"The Best Last Place provides us with a unique window into Santa Barbara's past. [This is] an important case study to our growing literature on how Americans memorialize their past, tying the history of the Santa Barbara Cemetery to the evolving story of the nation's burial places."
© 2006 David Petry