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The family of Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, dance and sing around his grave at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Brunswick, Maine, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018. Skold died of a heart attack at the age of 57 in January 2018, little more than a month after enlisting the son of novelist John Updike to carve a unique grave marker. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Poet laid to rest under unique tombstone he commissioned

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2010 file photo, Walter Skold of Freeport, Maine, reads a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem while posing in Eastern Cemetery in Portland, Maine. Skold, the founder of the Dead Poets Society of America who has visited the graves of more than 600 bards, has commissioned John Updike's son to carve his own tombstone in 2017 in Newburyport, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Someday he’ll join them: Poets Society head gets tombstone

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press

Founder of Dead Poets Society visits bards’ graves

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