Metro Atlanta mourners connect online to remember grieve
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- Metro Atlanta mourners connect online to remember grieve
- No studio no theater: Just you and your home computer
- Library use has grown according to Handley
Metro Atlanta mourners connect online to remember grieve
Atlanta Journal Constitution USA -
com’s home page takes users to the 1-800-Flowers site while Legacy. com offers the opportunity to create Memorial Web sites complete with photos audio and video for $49 per year. “We’re the first to admit it’s grown far beyond our initial expectations” said Legacy chief operating officer Hayes Ferguson. “We are building a virtual community of very real people who no longer can talk over the fence or run into each other. ”That “talking” may be loudest in Georgia where 86 percent of all guest books published with an obituary received entries in 2008. That’s compared with 73 percent elsewhere. Are we more wired here? r simply more comfortable with death than say the average Yankee?“I’d say it’s that people in the South are storytellers” ventured Janice Hume an associate journalism professor at the University of Georgia and the author of the book “bituaries in American Culture.
No studio no theater: Just you and your home computer
Kansas City Star M -
“The biggest screen they use regularly may be on their computer. Plus people increasingly are hooking their computers up to their TVs and home theaters.
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Library use has grown according to Handley
The Winchester Star VA -
For those without computers or fast connections at home the library makes a big difference. “Thank God the library has computers” said retired minister W. Layman 69 of Winchester is currently serving as interim minister for Linden and Markham United Methodist churches.