Upcoming events:
- October 28, 2026: Houdini Among the Villagers: The Magician’s Life and Afterlife in Greenwich Village at Church of the Village
- October 31, 2026: Magicians and Mediums Trolley Tour at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
- November 1, 2026: Cemetery Symbols & Secrets from New York’s City of the Dead at Union Hall, Brooklyn
- November 7, 2026: Secrets in Stone at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
- November 8, 2026: Catch the Colors: Fall at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
- November 14, 2026: Author Talk on Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads, Five Corners Branch, Jersey City Free Public Library
- December 12, 2026: Death’s Bouquet: The Language of Flowers in Cemeteries and Mourning
- February 8, 2027: Music for a Dying World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads, online with Morbid Anatomy
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
