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Monthly Archives: September 2016
Curiosity and the Cat
Originally posted on Cemetery Travel: Your Take-along Guide to Graves & Graveyards Around the World:
Unlike most of the musicians who hosted us on my husband Mason’s first solo tour of Japan, I considered Mayuko a friend, instead of a…
Posted in Good cemetery news
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Death’s Garden Revisited call for submissions
Twenty years ago, I was given a box of miscellaneous cemetery photos. They had been taken by my best friend’s husband over the course of his travels around the Americas. Blair was 28 years old and dying of AIDS. He wanted … Continue reading
A Restless Wind is Blowing Through Highgate
No one agrees where this story started or rather, there are as many beginnings as there are storytellers. In the early days, Hampstead Heath was the only thing sinister about the area. Highwaymen flourished there, like Dick Turpin, whose … Continue reading
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Tagged Dracula, Highgate Cemetery, Highgate vampire, London cemetery, longreads, vampires, Victorian graveyard
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Death’s Garden: History Lives like Ghosts
by Trilby Plants I love cemeteries. They are the keepers of memory and history. Every graveyard holds secrets and surprises. No, I’ve never seen a ghost in one, but I’ve seen family history in them. I’m an amateur genealogist and … Continue reading
Death’s Garden: The Graveyard of my Childhood
by Claudius Reich I was nine years old when we moved in next to the cemetery. I suppose I didn’t always hate the suburbs; that came later. From a crowded apartment in the middle of Boston, all of a sudden … Continue reading
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Tagged Deaths Garden, Morbid Curiosity magazine
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