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A podcast about the history, preservation, and culture of American cemeteries hosted by Liz Clappin... more
FAQs about Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast:How many episodes does Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast have?The podcast currently has 153 episodes available.
August 30, 2021Episode 93: Going to the Chapel, Gonna Get Buried: Forgotten Cemetery Architecture and the Men (and Women!) Who Built ItAt one time almost every cemetery had a chapel, magnificent buildings by famous architects, why did this happen and why did they eventually go out of favor?Email: [email protected]Facebook: Tomb with a View PodcastInstagram: tombwithaviewpodcast...more49minPlay
August 23, 2021Episode 92: An Officer and a Cemetery: Archaeology and Caretaking on an Army Base with Hillary BurtHillary Burt joins me to talk about her experience caring for the over 100 cemeteries located on Fort Campbell Army installation on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. We learn about how the US Army treats and cares for not only their own cemeteries, but those that become part of an Army installation by default. [email protected]Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcastFacebook: Tomb with a View Podcast...more49minPlay
August 13, 2021Episode 91: An Object Lesson in Patriotism: The Horrors of Andersonville and a Monument to a MurdererAndersonville stands out in American history as the worst example of how to treat POWs. A look at not only the catastrophic death toll, but who was to blame and how these 13,000 POWs were memorialized and the controversial counterattack that the United Daughters of the Confederacy waged at Andersonville. [email protected]Facebook: Tomb with a View PodcastInstagram: tombwithaviewpodcast...more54minPlay
August 06, 2021Episode 90: All Dogs Go to Heaven: Stephen King, Coondogs, and Hartsdale Pet CemeteryDo all dogs go to heaven? Looking at the fascinating origins of pet cemeteries and some of the more unusual examples. Email: [email protected]Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcastFacebook: Tomb with a View Podcast...more50minPlay
July 30, 2021Episode 89: Honorably Buried: The Complex Stories of Those Buried Far From Home in POW Cemeteries425,000 Italian and German POWs were brought to the United States during WWII and placed in 700 camps across America, but mainly in the South. Some of them never went home, the stories of these prisoners and how their remains were treated. [email protected]Facebook: Tomb with a View PodcastInstagram: tombwithaviewpodcast...more48minPlay
July 16, 2021Episode 88: Cemetery Stories: Why Necropolises Continue to Fascinate, with Audrey KeownNovelist Audrey Keown joins me to discuss why she chose to place a cemetery at the center of her latest mystery novel. We cover the best cemeteries in Chattanooga, TN where her novels are set (and Audrey lives!), why exploring understudied history is important, and much more! [email protected]Facebook: Tomb with a View PodcastInstagram: tombwithaviewpodcastFind Audrey and her latest mystery novel Dust to Dust here...more53minPlay
July 04, 2021Episode 87: Live Free or Die: Posthumous Patriots in the Colonial Graveyards of BostonPaul Revere, Samuel Adams, and More... Exploring Boston's first three graveyards along the Freedom Trail.[email protected]Facebook: Tomb with a View PodcastInstagram: tombwithaviewpodcast...more1h 13minPlay
June 18, 2021Episode 86: The 'Essence' of Death: Robert Waltrip, "Clustering", and Why You've Never Heard of SCISCI is the largest funeral care provider in the world, handling 1 in 9 American funerals. So why have you never heard of them? Learn the fascinating story of how Robert Waltrip turned a single funeral home into a global empire, the McDonald's of Death.[email protected]Facebook: Tomb with a View PodcastInstagram: tombwithaviewpodcast...more1h 1minPlay
June 04, 2021Episode 85: Nothing More Hilarious: Decca Mitford, Muckraking, and the American Way of DeathFirst published in 1963 The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford, later updated in 1998 after her death, challenged the funeral industry and its excess. What does it have to say about cemeteries?[email protected]Instagram: tombwiithaviewpodcastFacebook: Tomb with a View Podcast...more1h 11minPlay
May 30, 2021Episode 84: More Than Contraband, Arlington National Cemetery, Part IVToday I discuss the darker side of Arlington, how acquisition of additional burial space required the removal of hundreds of black residents of the Arlington Freedmen's Village and how the. Arlington Confederate Monument is perhaps the worst Lost Cause monument of them all. [email protected]Facebook: Tomb with a View PodcastInstagram: tombwithaviewpodcast...more1h 1minPlay
FAQs about Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast:How many episodes does Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast have?The podcast currently has 153 episodes available.