When Harvey Milk was assassinated on November 27, 1978 he left an enormous hole in the LGBTQ+ community of San Francisco. His legacy, not just as the first openly gay politician in California, but as an empathetic and compassionate social activist created an inclusive community that serves as his true legacy. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram...
Jun 07, 2022•40 min•Ep. 123
Ulysses S. Grant died essentially penniless, but 90,000 people donated more than $600,000 to memorialize him with a massive tomb in New York City. A century later a dedicated college student stepped in to save the day after decades of neglect. Celebrating Memorial Day with the comeback story of Grant's Tomb. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram...
Jun 01, 2022•44 min•Ep. 122
On May 6, 1937 the Hindenburg crashed in Lakehurst, NJ. On the 85th anniversary I examine the strange lack of memorials to the many airship disasters of the 1920s and 1930s and the dedicated individuals and corners of the world that keep the memory alive. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
May 17, 2022•45 min•Ep. 121
Is cemetery sculpture art? Who decides? and where does it fall in the spectrum of art history? Beth Roark is a professor of art history at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA and today we discuss what it is like to be a cemetery scholar. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
May 03, 2022•49 min•Ep. 120
The celebration of the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted continues with a discussion of Olmsted's grave at the Old North Burial Ground in Hartford, CT and the many cemetery projects taken on by the Olmsted Brothers in the 20th century. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
Apr 26, 2022•47 min•Ep. 119
April 26, 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of Landscape Architecture in America. Olmsted only designed one cemetery, Mountain View in Oakland, California, early in his career. Over the next two episodes I explore how his landscape design shaped American cemeteries and elevated the landscape to a piece of art. Olmsted 200 Email: Tomb with a View Podcast Facebook Instagram...
Apr 18, 2022•46 min•Ep. 118
German painted Caspar David Freidrich painted 10 oil paintings with the subject of cemeteries. Why did he chose those as his subject? How are they a reflection of the greater culture of the time? And most importantly why was Hitler such a fan? Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
Apr 12, 2022•44 min•Ep. 117
Seventy years ago Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA started a museum. They had been collecting art, both funerary and otherwise and their collection had grown to such an extent it needed a home. That museum is still a huge part of Forest Lawn's landscape today. I kick of Artistic April with James Fishburne, the curator of the Forest Lawn Museum and discuss the collection, art history, the " memorial impulse" and what the future of art looks like. Forest Lawn Memorial Park Museum Read mor...
Mar 31, 2022•48 min•Ep. 116
The K-9 Corps was founded 80 years ago on March 13, 1942. Since them more than 30,000 dogs have served in the US military, many who never came home. How are these dogs trained, what is their relationship to their handlers, and most importantly how are they remembered when the loose their lives in the line of duty? Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram...
Mar 18, 2022•43 min•Ep. 115
America has produced some incredible and innovative things in terms of burial traditions... but what about the unsuccessful ideas. Today I explore the brief lifespan of "marble cemeteries" . Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram The New York Marble Cemetery The New York City Marble Cemetery...
Mar 14, 2022•45 min•Ep. 114
The Lindbergh kidnapping is one of the most notorious true crime stories in American history. How did two cemeteries come to be at the center of the story and why was the supposed perpetrator known as "Cemetery John"? Facebook Instagram Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com
Mar 05, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 113
Childhood mortality has declined since the 19th century, but how has the was we memorialize children changed over time? Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
Feb 11, 2022•59 min•Ep. 112
Everyone has seen cast iron ornamental fences around family lots in cemeteries, but the history of cast iron and cemeteries doesn't end there. Looking at how cast iron became a hot commodity in American cemeteries in the 19th century. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Instagram Facebook
Feb 04, 2022•46 min•Ep. 111
Everyone who has visited a cemetery has seen a Masonic grave... but why is so little actually known and written about them? Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
Jan 17, 2022•48 min•Ep. 110
Harriette Merrifield Forbes was and extraordinary woman for her time, well educated, a phenomenal researcher, and a talented photographer... and without intending to, started the field of gravestone studies. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
Jan 07, 2022•49 min•Ep. 109
About a month ago I got a letter in the mail... today I'm sharing the weird and wonderful tale that unfolded from that letter, with surprising cemetery connections. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
Dec 31, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 108
Burford holly is one of the most popular ornamental shrubs in gardens across the United States, and its origins are in Atlanta's Westview Cemetery. In a story that involves Queen Victoria, eccentric gardeners, and English ballads I will explore how this Christmas symbol connects to cemeteries. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram...
Dec 24, 2021•36 min•Ep. 107
So many of our mourning traditions come from the Victorian era... the traditions all very much tied to the death of Queen Victoria's husband Albert and how she mourning him. Email: tombwithaview@gmail.com Instagram Facebook
Dec 17, 2021•51 min•Ep. 106
On December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Hawaii was bombed and torpedoed by Imperial Japanese troops. The military and civilian deaths that day lead to a massive recovery effort, temporary cemeteries, and one of the most visited memorials in American. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
Dec 03, 2021•54 min•Ep. 105
The story of the Pilgrims is the quintessential American story... so we have always treasured and protected their final resting place...right? Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
Nov 26, 2021•46 min•Ep. 104
Islam is the primary faith of 47 countries globally, with 1.9 billion practitioners, yet the history of Islam in America is difficult to trace and their cemeteries are hard to find, and even more difficult to establish new ones. Looking at the trends, or lack thereof in Muslim cemeteries in the United States. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram...
Nov 12, 2021•53 min•Ep. 103
The Amish are both one of the most fascinating and fastest growing Christian subsects, their simple, humble lives extend to their burial practices and both continue certain historic practices as well as set precedents. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
Nov 05, 2021•45 min•Ep. 102
Happy Halloween! Take a visit to the site of the legend(s) to learn a little about one of the most historic churches in America and the associated burial ground, red sandstone, preservation and reproductions to celebrate the spookiest day of the year! Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook Instagram
Oct 31, 2021•37 min•Ep. 101
On Good Friday 1936 cemetery sexton Michael Gallagher was literally blown to pieces by a bomb in a cigar box, which was intended for someone else. Everyone loves a good true crime story... was the man executed two years later in the electric chair really guilty? Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast...
Oct 10, 2021•55 min•Ep. 99
We look north to Canada this week as I break down the reasons behind the recent discovery of so many forgotten and neglected cemeteries containing the remains of indigenous children over the past few months on the grounds of former residential schools. I separate facts from fiction and examine how these neglected cemeteries aren't just about burials, but an entire system. tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast...
Oct 01, 2021•51 min•Ep. 98
More than a potters field Hart Island in Long Island Sound has been in public use since the Civil War. As it was emerging as the City Cemetery for New York (a much more complex idea than simply a potters field) the land was also being used for a wide variety of purposes and is filled with historic buildings. Examining the complex history and exciting future of one of America's largest and most fascinating burial grounds. Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast...
Sep 24, 2021•55 min•Ep. 97
What happens when a person dies with no one to claim their remains? Examining how different cities across the US handle their unclaimed and impoverished dead. tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast
Sep 17, 2021•58 min•Ep. 96
20 years, 22,000 sets of remains, and countless man hours and yet 40% of of the victims who died on September 11, 2001 remain unidentified. I look into the complex challenges that the scientists have faced in the most complex forensic investigation in modern history as well as the difficulties in handling human remains, when we don't know what or where they are. tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast
Sep 10, 2021•54 min•Ep. 95
As the 50th anniversary of the nation's deathliest prison riot in Attica, NY approaches I consider the troubling history of those who died there, not only the inhumane way the riot was ended, but the continuing indignity after death. Also examining the best know movie prison cemetery and how it is in many ways representative of reality. tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast Facebook: Tomb with a View
Sep 04, 2021•47 min•Ep. 94
At 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: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast
Aug 30, 2021•48 min•Ep. 93
