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The lost graves of Cheltenham
At least 100 Black boys from the 19th century House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children are buried in mostly unmarked graves in Prince George's County, Maryland. A coalition of former and current state officials and volunteers are trying to change that.
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The secret life of a cemetery : the wild nature and enchanting lore of Père-Lachaise
\"For Benoît Gallot, Père Lachaise is best explored without a guide: You're guaranteed to lose your way. You'll feel as though you've stepped out of time, out of Paris, and into another place entirely. In his debut memoir, Gallot, head curator of Père Lachaise and son of a grave stonemason, pulls back the curtains on his otherworldly workplace-a cemetery crammed with tourists in the high season and mourners year round, but also a natural paradise, where foxes roam, birds flit between trees, and wildflowers and moss encroach onto tombstones. In elegant, engrossing chapters, Gallot reveals the secret world of Père Lachaise-its Napoleonic origins, its unusual graves and monuments-alongside touching stories from his working life in the cemetery. Born into a family of undertakers, Gallot was named curator of Père-Lachaise in his early-thirties, inheriting the complex job of managing over 100 acres of green space, overseeing 70,000 graves, and arranging burials and cremations, all while contending with millions of tourists-plus film crews, birdwatchers, ghost hunters, and the occasional nude performance artist. Gallot, who also lives on the cemetery grounds with his wife and young children, demystifies his unusual and often misunderstood profession, which in reality requires much more contact with living people than dead ones. In doing so, he provides insight into the history of graveyards and our evolving relationship with death. Gallot also shares vivid descriptions of flora and fauna, which have reemerged in recent years thanks to a huge rewilding effort. Initially unsure about the idea, he embraced it as the cemetery alleys blossomed and birdsong proliferated. Then in April 2020, with the city in lockdown, Gallot took an early-morning stroll and crossed paths with a fox-in the middle of Paris! He snapped a picture and posted it, unwittingly setting off a media frenzy. Gallot's daily photographs of Père-Lachaise's flourishing animal and plant life have attracted followers from around the world, helping to change the public perception of cemeteries, which ultimately exist as places for the living.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery
\"In Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery, the excavation team provides crucial information about the Old Kingdom and Graeco-Roman Egypt. While both periods have been heavily studied, Kerry Muhlestein and his contributors provide new archaeological information that will help shape thinking about these eras. The construction and ritual features of the early Fourth Dynasty Seila Pyramid represents innovations that would influence royal funerary cult for hundreds of years. Similarly, as one of the largest excavated cemeteries of Egypt, Fag el-Gamous helps paint a picture of multi-cultural life in the Fayoum of Egypt during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Excavations there provide a statistically impactful understanding of funerary customs under the influence of new cultures and religion.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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After the Burning Years: Freedom, Fugitivity, and Maneuvering through Cemeteries of Abandoned Futures
The train rattles and chugs along the sharp curve of its steel tracks, rags of smoke tatter from its blackened chimney, as ceramic plates of food and glassware tip and topple over. There are certain things that vanished years ago, like the sound of children riding the carousel, the Cableway, Bumper Cars, Swing Boat, and Tilt a Whirl at Fun World along the beachfront promenade. Father sits, across from us, in his long black coat and well-pressed pants, camera hanging loosely around his neck, reading a newspaper, in silence. After a while, I looked over my shoulder to pick up stompies, to get a better look at the older man with the corduroyed face who was holding a yellow umbrella between his knees, talking to his bearded friend with the torn shirt pocket, who sat twisting and folding his train ticket into an awkward paper boat.
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Cemetery Citizens
Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, and research silenced histories, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how racial disparities shape the fates of the dead, and asks what kinds of repair are still possible. Drawing on interviews, activist anthropology, poems, and drawings, Adam Rosenblatt takes us to gravesite reclamation efforts in three prominent American cities.
Cemetery Citizens dives into the ethical quandaries and practical complexities of cemetery reclamation, showing how volunteers build community across social boundaries, craft new ideas about citizenship and ancestry, and expose injustices that would otherwise be suppressed. Ultimately, Rosenblatt argues that an ethic of reclamation must honor the presence of the dead—treating them as fellow cemetery citizens who share our histories, landscapes, and need for care.
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City of immortals : Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
\"This first-person account of a legendary necropolis will delight Francophiles, tourists and armchair travelers, while enriching the experience of taphophiles (cemetery lovers) and aficionados of art and architecture, mystery and romance. Carolyn Campbell's evocative images are complemented by those of renowned landscape photographer Joe Cornish. City of Immortals celebrates the novelty and eccentricity of Père-Lachaise Cemetery through the engrossing story of the history of the site established by Napoleonic decree, along with portraits of the last moments of the cultural icons buried within its walls. In addition to several 'conversations' with some of the high-profile residents, three guided tours are provided along with an illustrated pull-out map featuring the grave sites of eighty-four architects, artists, writers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers and actors, including Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison of the Doors, Frédéric Chopin, Georges Bizet, Edith Piaf, Georges Méliès, Isadora Duncan, Eugène Delacroix, Gertrude Stein, Amedeo Modigliani, Sarah Bernhardt, Richard Wright, Colette, and Marcel Proust.\"--Back cover.
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This Side – The Other Side. Shifts in the Perception of Death. Alternatives and Changes in Modern Burial (antropo-bio & land-art)
In modern society, death is misunderstood: it is perceived as unusual, and people are afraid to talk about it. It is a phenomenon which originated in industrial society and has not changed until now. The fear is usually caused by the way ritual spaces and cemeteries are developed. Often, it is a utilitarian space which is not adapted to people. More precisely, cemeteries are understood as an objectionable urban space. An experiment was carried out in a specific location of the industrial park of Kėdainiai. Both of the spaces explored – cemeteries and industrial parks – are understood as “non-places” (Peter Osborne). This shows a symmetry between two unwanted urban spaces. The aim is to create two different processes, metamorphoses. One of them is the transformation of the human body to soil (antropo-bio) and the other one is a conversion of an industrial park and substitution of phosphogypsum by structural plaster. In other words, a site construction (landscape+ architecture=site construction, Rosalind Krauss) with two composts, two cycles has been created in the same site. The aim is to show that not only death does not mean the end and that it can become a new life, but also the ethics and aesthetics of transformation. Facing the current geological epoch, the Anthropocene, it is important to withstand consequences caused by the human being. The experiment showed how a non-destructive relation has been created between the human and the environment in a devalued space. Transformation to soil gives a meaning to the identification with nature and other species.
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