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Where do we go when we die? This blog examines what communities, planners and others are doing (and not doing) for cemeteries.
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"Whistling Past the Graveyard": About This Blog
"Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have." -- Benjamin Franklin
Where do we go when we die? This blog explores the places where cemeteries and land use intersect, and examines what urban planners and thinkers, communities and others are doing (and not doing) about cemeteries.
You can find a companion site at Facebook, and I'm tweeting about these subjects at Twitter, at @TaphoFiles.
You can read more about this blog at the Welcome post.
Where do we go when we die? This blog explores the places where cemeteries and land use intersect, and examines what urban planners and thinkers, communities and others are doing (and not doing) about cemeteries.
You can find a companion site at Facebook, and I'm tweeting about these subjects at Twitter, at @TaphoFiles.
You can read more about this blog at the Welcome post.
The Cemetery Record
Cemetery Research and Information
- Cemetery Club
- Cemetery Planning Resource Alliance
- Centre for Natural Burial
- Chicora Foundation: Cemetery Preservation
- Dead Space Project
- Grave Matters: author Mark Harris' site
- Green Burial Council
- International Assoc. of Cemetery Preservationists
- International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association
- LEES + Associatees Landscape Architects
- Legacy Mark: Cemetery Management Software
- Madden Company: Cemetery Development, Restoration
- Names in Stone
- New Orleans cemetery preservation
- Old Camden (N.J.) Cemetery
- Perspectives: Photos & Research of Philadelphia Area Cemeteries
- Philly Graves
- Washington Post on Chesapeake Bay Cemeteries (incl. video)
- Zinc Markers
Notable Cemeteries
- Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Green Springs Natural Burial, Newfield, NY
- Green-Wood, New York, NY
- Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, NJ
- Mount Auburn, Cambridge, Mass.
- Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
- Spring Grove, Cincinnati, OH
- Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, NY
Cemetery Blogs
State cemetery regulatory information
Planning/Smart Growth Sites
- Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation
- Congress for New Urbanism
- Cyburbia
- Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
- Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance
- James Howard Kunstler
- James Howard Kunstler's Blog
- National Preservation Institute
- New Jersey Geographer
- Next American City
- Planetizen
- Smart Growth Online
- StreetsBlog
- Temple University Center for Sustainable Communities
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- Upstate New York cemetery has flooding woes
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- Wisconsin news
- Kentucky cemetery database complete
- Cemetery expansion OK'd in New Jersey
- Recovering from Gustav in Louisiana
- Topeka, Kansas, helps fund cemetery
- California town votes to expand cemetery
- Laredo, Texas, ponders cemetery sites
- Sinkhole at Rhode Island cemetery
- Economic downturn affects cemetery industry
- Green cemeteries; Mark Harris alert
- Wreaths Across America: A roundup of coverage
- Va. cemetery in disrepair
- Mountain lion spotted in Calif. cemetery
- Cemeteries and Flooding: A mapping project
- First Canadian "green" cemetery
- Sonoma, Calif., ponders cemetery sale
- Dogs in cemeteries
- Here is an article about San Francisco and its cem...
- Georgia cemetery/landfill story gains traction
- Vandalism roundup
- "Green Oasis in Brooklyn"
- Research request: Cemeteries and Flooding
- Headstones toppled in Modesto cemetery
- California town to upgrade cemetery
- Georgia remains to be moved for landfill expansion
- Locating graves in California with use of radar
- South Carolina cemetery may get county takeover
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About Me
- Deborah Woodell
- Glassboro, New Jersey, United States
- I am a retired journalist and adjunct professor of journalism. I studied GIS, and I have blogged about cemeteries and land use, urban issues, and honey. All views expressed are those of the author alone.
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