Episodes

  • Episode 16: Peaceful Character: Transcendentalism, Naturalistic Landscape Design, and Author's Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
    Oct 11 2023

    On one hill, in one cemetery, in a small town in Massachusetts are buried several American literary giants. The cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, in Concord, MA is in many ways a manifestation of the ideology that they popularized and launched a movement to conserve land.

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    51 mins
  • Episode 137: The Last Dormitory: The Perpetual School Spirit of Cemeteries on Campus
    Sep 11 2023

    Did your college or university have a cemetery on campus? A surprising amount of schools do. They exist of a number of reasons (well just one actually, but there's plenty of different stories).  Celebrate back to school in the best way possible...cemeteries!

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    50 mins
  • Episode 18: The Zinc Link: Metal Headstones, Blowtorches, and How the Monumental White Bronze Company Revolutionized Cemetery Sales
    Aug 27 2023

    Zinkies, or white bronze headstones are a perennial favorite of all taphophiles. Today we explore their origin, manufacturing, preservation, and discussed how the company that made them revolutionized sales techniques.

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    45 mins
  • Episode 14: Eternal Architecture: The Significance of Revival Style Architecture in Cemeteries
    Jun 18 2023

    The rural cemetery movement coincided with an intellectual fascination with past cultures. These elements of society combined to create a century of architectural distinction in American cemeteries.

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    43 mins
  • Episode 13: I Saw the Sign: Fraternal, Allegorical, Occupational, and Spiritual Cemetery Symbolism
    Jun 4 2023

    Cemetery Symbolism is often the hook that lures people into the cemetery world. What is it? What does it mean? Symbols and how they are interpreted is a complicated and much debated topic in art history.

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    43 mins
  • Episode 136: Atomic Afterlife: From Marie Curie to the Atomic Man, the Lead-Lined Resting Places of the Radioactive
    May 25 2023

    Radiation can both help and harm, from the atomic bomb to life saving cancer treatment the way that radioactive elements and isotopes impact the human body was little understood until the mid-20th century. The answers came from cemeteries, where scientists looked to corpses that had died of exposure to radiation to study the phenomenon, and better understand how to harness it's power in the future.

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    51 mins
  • Episode 12: Fight for the Right to Bury: The San Francisco Cemetery Wars, Urban Renewal, and the Creation of Colma
    Apr 24 2023

    Between 1895 and 1945 San Francisco not only outlawed burial within city limits, but within the entire county. Following that, a fast-growing western port town hungry for land rallied for the removal of the thirteen major cemeteries. Meanwhile, to the south a quiet farming community, less than two square miles was slowly transforming into something extraordinary, America's first true necropolis with more than 1.5 million burials.

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    49 mins
  • Episode 10: All Souls: St. Mary's City, Calvary, and the Numbers Game of Catholic Cemeteries
    Apr 24 2023

    The United States largest cemetery is a Catholic cemetery. One of it's most intact mortuary archaeological sites is a Catholic cemetery. Yet despite this, little has been written about Catholic cemeteries themselves, how they are founded, how the y should be run, or how they are designed. Catholic cemeteries are all about one thing... and they do it well. Volume.

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    40 mins