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Upcoming events:
- June 9: The Language of Flowers walking tour at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
- August 4-25: Speak with the Dead: A Crash Course in Understanding Cemetery Symbolism, online with Morbid Anatomy
- October 10-15: Peculiar Paris: The Shadow Side of the City of Light with Tarot Scholar Laetitia Barbier and Cemetery Expert Allison C. Meier
I moonlight as a tour guide in New York City area cemeteries and also regularly speak about the cultural history of our spaces for the dead. My tours and talks focus on cemeteries as places of history, art, and architecture, as well as memorial sites for remembrance. Themes range from symbolism, to magic and mediums in the 19th century, to forgotten disasters. They’ve included tours Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn, Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, East Village cemeteries, and Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, as talks with the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Brainery, Morbid Anatomy, and the New York Transit Museum.
If you are interested in any additional information, please send me an email. Below is some coverage from recent events.
- New Yorker
- Gothamist
- Daily Beast
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle
- Brooklyn Paper
- Time Out New York
- Atlas Obscura
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