Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery: 100 Years of Pets, People, and the Stories Behind the Stones
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Mangin, Julianne
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2020-10
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Vol. 63;No. 2
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en_US
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History of the cemetery and other early pet cemeteries in the Washington region; owners/managers Richard and Bertha Birney, George and Gertrude Young, Edgar Ruebush, S. Alfred and Martha Nash, PETA, Dorothy Shapiro, Dianne Pearce, Montgomery County Humane Society; vignettes about certain graves and the pets/owners involved, including Rags the dog from WWI, the dogs of J. Edgar Hoover, Napoleon the weather-predicting cat, Robin Goodfellow and his human A. Wilson Maddox, Eddie Berstein and his monkey Gypsy, Bascom N. Timmons, Rickey the sled dog; discussion of racial discrimination in the 1940s and 50s.
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Montgomery County Historical Society