Episode 7: Dignified Burial for All, LGBTQ History Month and Reclaiming Burial Spaces

10/25/19 • 72 min

This week we celebrate LGBTQ History month by talking about the history of burial discrimination towards the gay, bisexual, and transgender communities, why the LGBTQ community eschews so-called "tradition burial", how the LGBTQ community were pioneers in the realm of cremation, the NAMES project and how the AIDS quilt started a non-traditional memorialization movement, why AIDS is still an important topic today, and how the LGBTQ community are reclaiming burial spaces.

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Episode 8: Waiting and Watching for you, Receiving Vaults, Consumption, and Vampires in New

Today on a special Halloween episode of Tomb with a View we dive into a story straight out of Cumberland, Liz's hometown and look at the weird and wonderful history of the New England Vampire panic. Are there really vampires? Where do the legends come from? What do these stories tell us about the Victorian obsession with death? And most importantly where are the vampires buried?

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D'Agostino, Thomas, Haunted Rhode Island. (Schiffer, 2006).
Rondina, Christopher, The Vampire Hunter's Guide to New England: True Tales of the Yankee Undead. (Covered Bridge Press, 2000).
Rogak, Lisa, Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic, and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries. (The Globe Pequot Press, 2004).
Tucker, Abigail, "The Great New England Vampire Panic." Smithsonian Magazine, October, 2012.
Bills, Joe, "New England's Vampire History: Legends and Hysteria." New England Living Today, October 28, 2019.
Herwick III, Edgar B., "Salem Witches, Sure. What About the New England Vampire Panic?" WGBH, October 31, 2018.