Tomb With A View: A Cemetery Podcast

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

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

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

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

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...

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 mos...

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

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.co...

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: tombwithaview...

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

Hillary 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.  tombwithaview@gmail.com Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast

Andersonville 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.  tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpod...

Do all dogs go to heaven? Looking at the fascinating origins of pet cemeteries and some of the more unusual examples.  Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast

425,000 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.  tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast

Novelist 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! tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast Find Audrey and her lates...

Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, and More... Exploring Boston's first three graveyards along the Freedom Trail. tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast

SCI 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. tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast

First 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? tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: tombwiithaviewpodcast Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast

Today 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.  tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast

The popularity of burial at Arlington really didn't explode until 1963, when the burial of the assassinated president, John F. Kennedy was interred there. This week I examine the importance of the gravesite both as a factor that shaped Arlington and a watershed moment in gravesite design. 

Today I examine one of the most integral parts of Arlington, the Tomb of the Unknowns; why do we have one? What does it say? and most importantly why there are no more unknowns. tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast

Part 1 of a 3-part series on America's most famous cemetery, Arlington, to honor the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Memorial Amphitheater! tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast

I've talked about maritime disasters... but what about those who chose to be buried at sea, either as part of their profession or lifestyle? Looking at what you have to do to be buried in the briny deep. tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithaviewpodcast

There have been thousands of shipwreck on the coastlines of the United States and the Great Lakes. How do we mourn the lost? How do they themselves view the possibility of death at sea? Using two of the most noteworthy modern shipwrecks I examine the complex challenges of remembering those lost at sea. Email: tombwithaviewpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Tomb with a View Podcast Instagram: tombwithavie...

The RMS Titanic I perhaps the most famous shipwreck in history, we all know what happened the night it sank... but what happened after? How were the remains of victims salvaged? Were they salvaged at all? Where we those recovered buried? And most importantly... are there any bodies still down there? I also discuss some of the most impressive Titanic memorials and the lasting impact of the sinking....