A podcast that unearths the stories of people--living and dead--inspired by the cemeteries and graveyards we visit.
If you have an idea for an episode, email us at cemeterychroniclescontact@gmail.com. And please let us know your thoughts after listening to these stories.
Linda and Cynthia
From the shape of galaxies to our fingerprints to our earliest art, the spiral represents infinity, identity, connection, and growth. In one tiny section of the Delaware Health and Social Services Herman Holloway campus in New Castle County, Delaware, tucked behind the buildings that serve and service the living, is a spiral-shaped cemetery with a history as winding and layered as the symbol it is named for.
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If you would like to suggest a story or comment about this story, please email us at cemeterychroniclescontact@gmail.com
Thanks to Free Sound community on Pixbay for the bird sounds.
17 Nov 2024
Episode 2: Simpson Cemetery & Roads that Unite, Roads that Divide
Historian and local resident, [Last Name], explores the untold stories and achievements of the African American community surrounding the Simpson Cemetery in Delaware, shedding light on the power of unity and division.
16 Oct 2024
Blogcast: Volunteering at a cemetery and why the public should use them more
Cemeteries are largely ignored by modern people, sometimes even feared, but it wasn't always that way. Cemeteries used to be destinations. Can we make it that way again?
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16 Oct 2024
Blogcast: How we live is reflected in how we bury our dead
Over two days, I visited two very different cemeteries: one is Simpson Cemetery in Belvedere, Delaware, that reflects the history of a community over the course of 160+ years, and the other is the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetry. The contrast made me think about how death and life are often connected in unexpected ways.
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1 Oct 2024
Blogcast: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Memorial Grove
I attended a Pow Wow the other day in Newark, Delaware. One of the most powerful moments was walking through a grove of red dresses commemorating the thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women and female children whose cases go unresolved, and in many cases, uninvestigated. Those who follow this issue say there are thousands more that go unreported.
I'll be donating my red dress to this cause. Visit this website to learn more. It's an epidemic.
Follow them on their Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/mmiwgmemorialgrove) page.
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2 Aug 2024
Episode 1: Family Cemeteries and Mike Ingram's Journey
After attending a Death Chat with Cookies event, Mike Ingram was inspired to learn more about his family history and the land his grandfather--an African American living during the Jim Crow era-- bequeathed the family. His journey is a mirror held up to American 20th-century history.
If you would like to suggest a story or comment about this story, please email us at cemeterychroniclescontact@gmail.com
Correction: The number of acres sold to Insight Homes for Ingram Village is 103 acres. The audio says it is 180.
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