WCEM_106: Season 1 Finale!

Season 1 Episode 6

Episode Description

In the Season 1 finale of World’s Greatest Cemeteries, Host Roberto Mighty visits the house museum of one of France’s greatest authors; a Cincinnati monument to a Civil War family; a Victorian London cemetery; and a Boston Revolutionary War graveyard. Cemetery experts give a primer on funerary iconography and a horticultural peek at pondside plantings; and we drop hints about our exciting Season 2!

STORIES THIS EPISODE

• Le Port Marly, France: Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, at Chateau de Monte Cristo house museum. Guest Expert: Frédérique Lurol, Directrice, Château de Monte-Cristo

• London, UK: VO: Cemetery Religious Separation, at Highgate Cemetery. Guest Expert: Dr. Ian Dungavell, Chief Executive, Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust

• Brooklyn, NY: Pondside Plantings. Guest Expert: Sara Evans, Director of Horticulture and Operations at Green-Wood Cemetery

• Cambridge, MA: Funerary Iconography at Mount Auburn Cemetery, with guest expert Meg Winslow

• Cincinnati, OH: Civil War statue, at  Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum. Guest Expert: Dale Hoyt, Docent. 

• Boston, MA: Revolutionary War era Granary Burying Ground - Crispus Attucks, Paul Revere, John Hancock & Samuel Adams.

• Cincinnati, OH: The “Fighting McCooks” Civil War heroes, interred at  Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum. Guest Expert: Dale Hoyt, Docent. 

• Cincinnati, OH: Arboriculture of the Ginkgo Biloba Tree. at  Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum. Guest Expert: David Gressley, Director of Horticulture & Taxonomist

The Chateau de Monte-Cristo is a writer's house museum located at Le Port-Marly in the Yvelinesdepartment of northern France. It was originally built as a residence for Alexandre Dumas, père. Official Website: https://www.chateau-monte-cristo.com/main/ 

Guest Expert:  Frédérique Lurol

Title: Directrice, Château de Monte-Cristo

Guest Expert: Dr. Ian Dungavell

Title: Chief Executive, Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust

Dr. Ian Dungavell has been Chief Executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust since September 2012. For 12 years previously he was Director of the Victorian Society. He has a Master’s degree in the conservation of the historic environment and a doctorate in architectural history. His first degree was in Art History from the Australian National University. https://highgatecemetery.org 

Guest Expert: Meg Winslow

Title: Curator of Historical Collections, Mount Auburn Cemetery

Guest Expert: Dale Hoyt

Title: Docent, Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum

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.

Panthéon (French: [pɑ̃.te.ɔ̃], from the Classical Greek word πάνθειον, pántheion, '[temple] to all the gods')[1] is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter, atop the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the center of the Place du Panthéon, which was named after it. The edifice was built between 1758 and 1790, from designs by Jacques-Germain Soufflot, at the behest of King Louis XV of France; the king intended it as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, Paris' patron saint, whose relics were to be housed in the church. Neither Soufflot nor Louis XV lived to see the church completed.Official Website: https://www.paris-pantheon.fr/en/# 

Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West Cemetery and the East Cemetery at Highgate Cemetery. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as well as for its de facto status as a nature reserve. The Cemetery is designated Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London. Official Website: https://highgatecemetery.org  

Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural, or garden, cemetery in the United States, located on the line between Cambridge and Watertown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Boston. It is the burial site of many prominent members of the Boston Brahmins, as well-being a National Historic Landmark.Official Website: www.mountauburn.org 

Green-Wood Cemetery Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery, in a time of rapid urbanization when churchyards in New York City were becoming overcrowded. Described as "Brooklyn's first public park by default long before Prospect Park was created",Green-Wood Cemetery was so popular that it inspired a competition to design Central Park in Manhattan, as well as Prospect Park nearby. Official Website: https://www.green-wood.com 

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 

The Granary Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston's third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street. It is the final resting place for many notable Revolutionary War-era patriots, including Paul Revere, the five victims of the Boston Massacre, and three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine. The cemetery has 2,345 grave-markers, but historians estimate that as many as 5,000 people are buried in it. The cemetery is adjacent to Park Street Church, behind the Boston Athenaeum and immediately across from Suffolk University Law School. It is a site on Boston's Freedom Trail.  Official Website: https://www.boston.gov/cemeteries/granary-burying-ground 

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Description: Panthéon de Paris, France.

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English: Old Jewish Cemetery. Josefov, Prague.

Date 22 August 2008

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English: Gravestones in Ōtani Honbyō Cemetery, Kyoto, Japan. At the center is the tomb for "Three Human Bomb Warriors" in Second Sino-Japanese War.

日本語: 大谷本廟（京都）の「肉弾三勇士の墓」

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Description: Crypt of Panthéon de Paris

This building is indexed in the base Mérimée, a database of architectural heritage maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, under the reference PA00088420 Wikidata-logo.svg.

Date 16 April 2010

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Description: Memorial to the dead, Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris, 20th arr., France.

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Date 19 June 2013, 13:17:05

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English: Muslim cemetery. Kashgar.

Date 10 June 2011, 20:34:12

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English: The altar area (chancel) 2018

Date 6 June 2018, 06:52:51

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