January 2012
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Happy New Years Followers!
here’s to another year of awesome cemeteries!
December 2011
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The Mount Everest Graveyard →
Everyone knows that climbing Mount Everest is one of the greatest physical accomplishments man can achieve. It’s so difficult, in fact, that many don’t survive to tell the tale. And most of the climbers (150 or so of the 216 deaths) who didn’t make it are still on the mountain.
A vast majority of the dead climbers fall within the Death Zone (8,000+ m), an area with such high altitude that it...
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'White House Boy' claims startling find →
Among the weeds, pine trees, and brush, Jerry Cooper made a startling discovery.
“I was having a hard time because I didn’t know if I was in a cemetery,” he recalled. “I couldn’t find anything. Then all of a sudden I spotted a slab that was covered with leaves and barely one corner of it sticking out. Then I started looking around and I saw more and more.”
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In Norfolk, a Scout takes inventory of history -... →
Mark Norman, a Boy Scout in Troop 80, just completed an Eagle Scout project he did for the historic commission. The project entailed inventorying and mapping all pre-1900 graves in Norfolk Cemetery off Main and Seekonk streets in the eastern end of Norfolk. The older section of the graveyard contains more than 600 gravestones, Norman said, but historical commission member Barbara Bartholomew...
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“Thomas Lynch, 58, is a writer and a poet. He’s also a funeral director in...”
– Introduction | The Undertaking | FRONTLINE | PBS
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