Death, Mourning & the Afterlife

Archive for July, 2006

Ross Mitchell (Part 1) – How Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery Is Reinventing Itself

Ed Snyder | July 11, 2006 | 0 Comments

On May 16, 2006, Ed Snyder sat down with Ross Mitchell, Executive Director of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, PA to discuss the future of one of America’s most well known garden cemeteries. Here are the highlights.

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How To Live Forever… As A Diamond

admin | July 8, 2006 | 0 Comments

I recently stumbled onto LifeGem.com, a company that creates diamond memorials from your own carbon. With a lock of hair or the cremated remains, you can be made into a .20 carats to 1.25 carat diamond.

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In Katrina’s Wake: An Image of New Orleans’ Cities of the Dead

admin | July 3, 2006 | 0 Comments

There’s a great article in the July/August 2006 Archaeology Magazine on the damage Katrina did to New Orleans. You can view a great picture of some of the damage that the Buras cemetery sustained on their website.

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Ed’s Cemetery Traveler Blog

Vote for Woodlawn Cemetery! May 12, 2012
Over the years I’ve visited Woodlawn Cemetery in New York’s Bronx borough a few times, and it is a magnificent place. If you’re a cemetery photographer, it is a must-see. It’s one of the first cemeteries I found myself accidentally locked in, and oddly, the first cemetery I later intentionally allowed myself to be locked in, just so I could photograph the ma […]
2nd Anniversary of "The Cemetery Traveler!" May 4, 2012
Well, it’s been two years since I began writing The Cemetery Traveler blog. That’s most of my two-and-a-half year-old daughter’s lifetime – a fact that puts all that work into startling perspective for me. I’ve posted 120 articles and have 144 regular subscriber/followers. I greatly appreciate the fact that you’re reading this and hope you will continue. Da […]
Celebrate Arbor Day – Chop Down a Tree! April 27, 2012
This past Saturday, I was part of a city tree-planting group of volunteers that planted ten new trees on our block in South Philadelphia. One was alongside my house. Later that afternoon, I helped a different group of volunteers chainsaw a cluster of wild trees that had grown around and were crowding out a mausoleum at Philadelphia’s Mount Moriah Cemetery. I […]