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Category Archives: Cemetery essay
My Cemetery Videos on Youtube
Many years ago, I started a channel on Youtube. It was intended to showcase videos I recorded, but over the years, I’ve appeared on a number of other people’s podcasts and blogs, talking about cemeteries. Last week, I finally spent … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetery essay, Cemetery interview
Tagged cemeteries on youtube, cemetery video, youtube channel
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Graveyard Field Trips
I’ve been working on a collection of my cemetery travel essays and publishing it on Wattpad. It’s about halfway finished now. You can read the first eight adventures for free here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/151274118-graveyard-field-trips-a-memoir Here’s the description of it: Every day aboveground is … Continue reading
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Tagged Cemetery, goth, gothic, Graveyard Field Trips, memoir, travel, Wattpad, writing
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Death’s Garden: Lenin’s Mausoleum
by Melodie Bolt In January 1988, I stood in Red Square with thirty American college students watching Lenin’s Honor Guard change. The replacement soldiers exited the Kremlin gate and moved parallel to the Kremlin wall. The duo marched in long … Continue reading
Death’s Garden: Never Let Your Feet Get Cold
by Carrie Sessarego Tucked in the folds of the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, near the entrance to Sequoia National Park, there’s a tiny town called Three Rivers, California. My family always went to Three Rivers in the spring or … Continue reading
