Deep Roots: Learning from Cemetery History in the Time of a Pandemic

Please join us for the second of a three part interactive webinar series entitled CEMETERIES IN THE TIME OF COVID-19. 

Our second session is Thursday May 14, 2020, 6:30pm EST

Deep Roots: Learning from Cemetery History in the Time of a Pandemic

Throughout U.S. history, cemeteries have experienced the devastating results of pandemics and widespread disease outbreak. Join us to learn about how these cemeteries dealt with mass burials, and how lessons of the past are highly valuable in today’s current COVID-19 crisis. This session will feature leading experts and authors of cemetery history who will share their knowledge and understanding from a public health lens.

Facilitator:

• Christina Bain, Executive Committee, Association for Gravestone Studies Northeast New England Chapter

Presenters:

• Elizabeth Clappin, Host, “Tomb with a View” Podcast and MFA Architectural History
• Michael T. Keene, Author, New York City’s Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers
  
• William “Bill” McEnvoy, U.S. Army Veteran (1968-1971) and Author, Rainsford Island: A Boston Harbor Case Study in Public Neglect and Private Activism
  

This is a free session offered by the Association for Gravestone Studies

Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84745756050