Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Graveyards

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why graveyards are secretly incredibly fascinating. Special guest: Jason Pargin.

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• Katie Goldin on Twitter
• @ProBirdRights
• ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

• PRE-ORDER the upcoming novel by Jason Pargin! It’s called Zoey Is Too Drunk For This Dystopia.
• ORDER the latest novel by Jason Pargin! It’s called If This Book Exists, You’re In The Wrong Universe.
• Audiobook of If This Book Exists, You’re In The Wrong Universe, narrated by Stephen R. Thorne
• Jason’s website
• Jason’s Substack
• Jason Pargin on Twitter
• Jason Pargin on Tiktok

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)
• “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)

• The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds by Marilyn Yalom
• Etowah Indian Mounds, State Historic Site, Cartersville (Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites)
• Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (UNESCO)
• Societies Of The Americas: Cahokia (UC Berkeley ORIAS)
• The American Heritage Dictionary entry and word history for “Mississippi”
• The First Mound Builders: Mysterious relics of the Poverty Point people (Country Roads Magazine)
• Iraq’s “Peace Valley” — the world’s largest cemetery (Reuters)
• Wadi Al-Salam Cemetery in Najaf (UNESCO)
• Grief in Iraq: inside the world’s largest cemetery – in pictures (The Guardian)
• The Top 10 Secrets Of NYC’s Calvary Cemetery In Queens, The Largest In The U.S. (Untapped New York)
• Green-Wood Cemetery (The New York Landmarks Conservancy)
• 99% Invisible: “The Modern Necropolis”
• Wikimedia Commons photo: “The tomb of Raphael in the Pantheon in Rome, Italy”
• How American Cemeteries Promise To Keep Your Grave Forever (NPR’s Planet Money)
• Reuse of graves ‘needed to prevent crisis’ (BBC News)
• Death in the city: what happens when all our cemeteries are full? (The Guardian)
• Modeling the Future of Religion in America (Pew Research Center)
• The Fortingall Yew — Fortingall, Scotland (Atlas Obscura)
• Ancient Tree Inventory: Yew (UK Woodland Trust)
• Souvenir Seekers Are Dismembering Britain’s Oldest Tree (Atlas Obscura)
• Oy Tannenbaum! Are Christmas trees Christian or pagan? (Patheos)
• Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
• Cashing in on the donated dead: The Body Trade (Reuters)
• The Reputed Plague Pits of London (Historic UK)
• Why Weren’t These Black Death Victims Buried in Mass Graves? (Smithsonian SmartNews)
• Your Favorite Park Is Probably Built on Dead Bodies (Vice Motherboard)
• 5 Playgrounds Built On Cemeteries In New York (Untapped New York)
• Graveyards Are Surprising Hotspots for Biodiversity (Scientific American)