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Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast episodes
- Episode 16: Peaceful Character: Transcendentalism, Naturalistic Landscape Design, and Author's Ridge at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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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Instagram52 min - Episode 137: The Last Dormitory: The Perpetual School Spirit of Cemeteries on Campus
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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Instagram50 min - Episode 18: The Zinc Link: Metal Headstones, Blowtorches, and How the Monumental White Bronze Company Revolutionized Cemetery Sales
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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Instagram46 min - Episode 14: Eternal Architecture: The Significance of Revival Style Architecture in Cemeteries
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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Instagram43 min - Episode 13: I Saw the Sign: Fraternal, Allegorical, Occupational, and Spiritual Cemetery Symbolism
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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Instagram43 min - Episode 136: Atomic Afterlife: From Marie Curie to the Atomic Man, the Lead-Lined Resting Places of the Radioactive
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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Instagram52 min - Episode 12: Fight for the Right to Bury: The San Francisco Cemetery Wars, Urban Renewal, and the Creation of Colma
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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Instagram49 min - Episode 10: All Souls: St. Mary's City, Calvary, and the Numbers Game of Catholic Cemeteries
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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Instagram40 min - Episode 135: The Imperishable Stars: Howard Carter, the 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of Kind Tut's Tomb, and Egyptomania
The discovery of KV62, or the tomb of King Tut was one of the most significant archaeological finds in history. 100 years ago, Howard Carter, the son of an illustrator and self-taught Egyptologist under the patronage of Lord Carnovan, first glimpsed the undiscovered tomb. In the wake of his discovery, a new wave of Egyptomania would sweep the world, and no where was this more evident than in cemeteries.
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Instagram44 min - Episode 9: Top Ten Preservation Challenges
What are the biggest challenges that historic cemeteries face when it comes to the issue of preservation? No answers this week, just putting a name on the things that stand in the way of successful preservation.
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About Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast
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A podcast about the history, preservation, and culture of American cemeteries hosted by Liz Clappin