Cemetery Chronicles: Stories Unearthed

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...

An overlooked cemetery in a small town in Delaware reflects the remarkable accomplishments of the African American community that grew up around it. If you would like to suggest a story or comment about this story, please email us at cemeterychroniclescontact@gmail.com

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? Visit our Facebook page  for more photos and details of our cemetery visits.

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.  Visit our Facebook page  for more photos and details of our cemetery visit...

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 c...

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@gmai...