Cities of the Dead
New Orleans is known worldwide for its graveyards. Crescent City’s gothic mystique imbues its cemeteries with a seductive draw, and who doesn’t like a little atmosphere? If you’re...
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A Brief History of Headstones
It’s that time of year! “Graveyards” are popping up in neighborhoods and front yards all across this great land: tombstones askew, phalanges and femurs poking up through the...
Gargantuan Gates & More COVID Conspiracies | 4M #48
Welcome to the forty-eighth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #48, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations...
10 Ways Sextons and Senators Have Historically Defended Corpses and Their Rights
Wouldn’t it be nice if “final disposition” was always, well, “final?” Unfortunately, ensuring that corpses actually end up — and stay, intact or otherwise — where they are...
Preserving Historic Black Cemeteries
As the nation reckons with our history of racism and institutionalized discrimination, the stories of Black Americans are being unearthed –sometimes literally – in thousands of historic Black...
Welcome to the New Year | FFFW #17
RIP 2020 Wow, that was a trip. We all said that it was going to be the “year of vision,” and it ended up being the year of...
Is Fracking Cemeteries Immoral? Plot Owners Have No Say
The oil and gas boom is just starting to filter into southeastern Ohio where ConnectingDirectors.com is located so the topic of "fracking" has been frequently discussed. Fracking, also...