Showing posts with label Cemetery Visit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cemetery Visit. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

1863 Brown's Island Laboratory Disaster- the graves in Shockoe Hill Cemetery

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On May 10, 2023, I attended a history tour at Shockoe Hill Cemetery.   I was excited because Bert Dunkerly, a historian, author, and Nationa...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

I wrote another book!

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My forthcoming book  The Souls Close to Edgar Allan Poe: Graves of His Family, Friends and Foes  is being published by The History Press on ...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

...Cemetery Happy Hour... authors and cemetery lovers share connections with cemeteries

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Last night I hosted a Cemetery Happy Hour with authors Loren Rhoads Denise Tapscott and Chris LaMay-West focused on the forthcoming book ...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

...grave symbols and a secret society...

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This is the grave of Henry Noble Taylor, known to his friends as Harry, who rests in the University of Virginia Cemetery in Charlottesville,...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

...a student memorial in a university cemetery...

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I have a new research project that I have started and was searching for a particular grave; yet I’m always distracted by cemetery memorials ...
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Thursday, March 17, 2022

Death's Garden Revisited: Relationships with Cemeteries Death's Garden Revisited is an anthology of personal essays about how the authors connect with cemeteries and graveyards.(Kickstarter)

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I'm very excited to announce that I have a piece in the anthology, Death’s Garden Revisited ! This is a project by Loren Rhoads who bro...
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Monday, March 14, 2022

Visiting Edgar Allan Poe's original grave (Westminster Hall and Burying Ground)

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"Grave Insight" Richmond Magazine

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  Grave Insight  ( Richmond Magazine ) In her new book, Hanover County author Sharon Pajka explores ‘Women Writers Buried in Virginia’ by  G...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

...a cemetery mystery in progress...

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  A few weeks ago, I took a quick excursion during lunch to a cemetery that is rarely open to the public without special permission. Since I...
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Friday, October 29, 2021

The Ghost Garden and Halloween weekend

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Like many of you, it has been an exhausting year and a half; and with the world being what it is, we’re planning to stay in this weekend a...
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