Mastodawn

Oh, this is good. So good! If you share a fascination for #graveyards, #mortuary culture, and the "story" part in #history, this will be your thing. Both actually, book and play, highly recommended! 🏺👍

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose Mar 31

The Cork: IRISH HERITAGE: Skibbereen Heritage Centre adds more historic burial records to website database. “Skibbereen Heritage Centre has added newly digitised Cork County Council burial register records from 27 graveyards to its online database. This latest update brings the total number of burial records available on the website to 109,385 from 1,700 graveyards across Cork County.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/31/irish-heritage-skibbereen-heritage-centre-adds-more-historic-burial-records-to-website-database-the-cork/

IRISH HERITAGE: Skibbereen Heritage Centre adds more historic burial records to website database (The Cork)

The Cork: IRISH HERITAGE: Skibbereen Heritage Centre adds more historic burial records to website database. “Skibbereen Heritage Centre has added newly digitised Cork County Council burial re…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Public Domain Image Archive Mar 23

Women and children in front of a graveyard (ca. 1910).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b0d40546-74cd-4b89-ba48-3804737617b9

#graves #candid #stereographs #israel #stereoscopes #jerusalem #graveyards #palestine #art #publicdomain

Gay Curmudgeon Mar 9

The WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY, off North Street in Mifflintown, was our favorite playground as children, particularly during sledding season. It is the resting place of local shero Nancy Kulp, "Miss Jane" of "The Beverly Hillbillies;" '60's kidnapper of Peggy Ann Bradnick, William Hollenbaugh; and my parents. Sunset, 1973. #cemetery #cemeteries #graveyard #graveyards #burialground #burialgrounds #westminsterpresbyteriancemetery #northstreet #mifflintown #presbyterian #nature

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Feb 24

New-to-me, from Nasha Niva: Enthusiasts Digitized All Minsk Cemeteries . “At the moment, we have digitized 95 percent of Minsk’s burials, 25 percent of the Minsk region, and partially other cities of Belarus. In addition, we have entered almost all mass graves from the war period, as well as the locations of all cemeteries in Belarus. In total, there is information on 620,000 deceased, but this […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/nasha-niva-enthusiasts-digitized-all-minsk-cemeteries/

Lauren McMenemy Feb 8

Time for another Writing the Occult: Love & Death session briefing! We have speculative fiction writer Verity Holloway joining us, marrying her love of Victorianism and the Gothic to chat about graveyards and the path from 18th century pastoral poems to Romanticism and the Gothic. BYO mossy stones.

Tix/details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co

#horror #gothic #graveyards #cemeteries #ghoststories #romanticism #writers #writing #books #creativity #creativetoots

Lorraine Evans Feb 8

#OnThisDay A year ago today, after many years of hard graft, the Symbols of Mortality exhibition finally opened in Orkney Museum. Can't believe it has been a year already. Big shout out to the wonderful Tom Muir and Fran Flett Hollinrake for all their efforts in making it happen....

#death #archaeology #history #cemeteries #graveyards #burial

John Chapman Jan 8

Years ago I was wandering round a graveyard in Durham Co. on a snowy day. Graveyards are easier to transcribe in winter when vegetation has died back. Under my coat I had a tape recorder into which I was reading the headstones for later transcription. To clear moss and snow I had a small brush. Near the graveyard wall I tripped over a branch buried in the snow and in an effort to protect the tape recorder I fell flat on my face. I uttered a few choice words and from the wall heard 'Tut Tut Tut.' I looked up to see two police officers who had been told about a strange man shambling around the graveyard, scrabbling at the stones and muttering to himself. #genealogy #graveyards

Lauren McMenemy Jan 5

Next up, we've got none other than acclaimed gothic and horror writer Verity Holloway to tell us all about the romance of graveyards. Is this a match made in gothic heaven or what?

Tickets now on sale, and more speaker announcements to come! Get the details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co

#horror #gothic #writers #writing #creativity #graveyards #darkromance