WCEM_105: Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum

Season 1 Episode 5

Episode Description

Host Roberto Mighty explores Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum — the 3rd largest cemetery in the USA and a National Historic Landmark. Experts show Champion Trees and check out water features. Historical Reenactments: Feminist firebrand Frances Wright; Abolitionist Levi Coffin and Landscape Architect Adolph Strauch. Visit to monument of formerly enslaved African-American inventor and abolitionist Henry Boyd.

STORIES THIS EPISODE

• Introduction

• A Plague of Cicadas!

• Frances Wright, Scottish/American Social Reformer

• Champion Trees

• Adolph Strauch, Landscape Architect

• Henry Boyd, African-American Inventor and Abolitionist

• “Chunkie” Singleton, the most-visited grave in the cemetery

• Architecture: The Norman Chapel

• Levi Coffin, Quaker Abolitionist

• The Waterfall

• “Tree Stone” Ethnic German Funerary Monument

• John Vonderheid, The Janitor With a Secret

• Horticulture: Bald Cypress Trees

Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum (733 acres (2.97 km2)) is a nonprofit rural cemetery and arboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the third largest cemetery in the United States, after the Calverton National Cemetery and Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery and is recognized as a US National Historic Landmark. Official Website: https://www.springgrove.org 

Guest Expert: Dale Hoyt

Title: Docent, Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum https://www.springgrove.org/ 

Guest Expert: David Gressley

Title: Director of Horticulture, Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum

Prior to coming to Spring Grove, David was Horticulturist at Lake View Cemetery; Horticulturist at The Holden Arboretum. He earned his B.S. in Agriculture Ornamental Horticulture from The Ohio State University. https://www.springgrove.org/ 

Guest Expert: Karen Wais

Title: Docent, Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum https://www.springgrove.org/ 

Guest Expert: Gary Freytag

Title: President & CEO, Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum

Gary M. Freytag, President and Chief Executive Officer of Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, joined the organization in 2003. Mr. Freytag holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Dartmouth and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard. He joined the Spring Grove Family after previously serving as President of Information Alternatives, a Cincinnati based technology consulting company. Prior to that, Mr. Freytag served as Treasurer of Eagle-Picher, a diversified manufacturing company with nearly one billion dollars in worldwide revenue. His other business experience includes manufacturing, management consulting, and venture capital. Mr. Freytag is active nationally in the death care profession. He speaks regularly at national and regional conventions. He is President of the International Cemetery Cremation and Funeral Association (ICCFA). He is also Dean of the Leadership College at ICCFA University. https://www.springgrove.org/

This Episode Licensed Media Attributions: S1 Ep5

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English: Lows Map of Kentucky and neighboring Territories

Date 31 December 2013, 08:31:22

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Author DigbyDalton

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Description Map showing which areas of the United States did and did not allow slavery between July 1821 to August 1821. The map colorings of some areas require further comment. New York (1799) and New Jersey (1804) adopted laws gradually freeing enslaved people, but some people in these states remained enslaved until 1824 (NY) and 1865 (NJ). Territories and states which had not specifically banned slavery are colored red/pink.

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Description

English: Cincinnati City Hall, Richardsonian Romanesque style, designed by Samuel Hannaford.

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Author EEJCC

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Description A 13cm long Metasequoia occidentalis foliage spray. Klondike Mountain Formation, Republic, Ferry County, Washington, USA, Eocene, Ypresian, 49 million years old. Stonerose Interpretive Center Collection #

Date 19 January 2007

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