Thanks to Nancy Brister for this reminder. Winn Cemetery Special Monday, October 31, 9:00pm (This is my local PBS station's time, check PBS for the schedule in your area.) "A Cemetery Special" Celebrates Some Old And Interesting Places Where People Are Buried From the PBS site: Everybody used to hang out at the cemetery. In the nineteenth century, lots of Americans would head for the local cemetery when they wanted to escape from industrial cities, when they wanted to relax and enjoy a green, natural setting, when they wanted to see some art, as well as when they wanted to remember and pay respect to the dearly departed. Back then, cemeteries sometimes got so crowded that tickets were required for admission. Today cemeteries aren't quite so popular and full of people, but they are still valuable and often beautiful places full of surprises and stories of all sorts. So, several burial places from Key West to Fairbanks are celebrated in a new public television documentary titled "A Cemetery Special." A second broadcast of the program has been scheduled for Monday, October 31 at 10:00 p.m. ET on many stations. (check local listings.) "The big problem with cemeteries," said producer and narrator Rick Sebak, "is that they are everywhere. People take great pride in their local cemeteries and often have special affection for the places where their loved ones are buried, but there are too many interesting and important burial places. That's one of the reasons why we decided to call this 'A Cemetery Special' rather than 'The Cemetery Special.' We couldn't be comprehensive. We squeeze nine cemeteries into one hour." "A Cemetery Special" includes a tour of several great "rural garden cemeteries" including Allegheny in Pittsburgh (where a family finds its long lost Uncle E.Z.), Mount Auburn in Boston (the first of the great American cemeteries) and Lake View in Cleveland (where there's a mighty memorial to President James A. Garfield and an annual celebration of the flowers on its Daffodil Hill). At the Key West Cemetery in Florida, there's lots of local history and a few funny epitaphs amid the palm trees and the monuments. On Memorial Day, the town of Waterloo in New York's Finger Lakes region carries on the town's tradition of decorating the graves of soldiers who died in the line of duty. And in Atlanta, the Historic Oakland Cemetery is essentially full - it sold its last family plot back in 1884 - but its Foundation and many volunteers are working together now to restore its Victorian grandeur and to attract lots of visitors. Sebak and his team of TV-documentary-makers also travel to the town of Colma, California, where there are seventeen cemeteries because the city of San Francisco decided to "evict" all its old cemeteries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In central Vermont, the folks at Rock of Ages' quarries take granite out of the ground and transform it into memorials, while local stonecutters and workers have made sure that Hope Cemetery in Barre has one of the world's best collections of unusual sculptures and monuments. The last stop in "A Cemetery Special" is at Birch Hill Cemetery in Fairbanks where Alaskans often make their markers of wood and frequently leave a variety of personal objects and mementoes atop the graves.

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I saw the special this evening, and although the show was good, they missed a good chance to show the beauty and grave of Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. Bob Carter ----- Original Message ----- From: "GNW" <gnw@rose.net> To: <GA-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 5:35 PM Subject: [GA-CEM] "A Cemetery Special" Celebrates Some Old And Interesting Places Where People Are Buried > Thanks to Nancy Brister for this reminder. Winn > > > > Cemetery Special > Monday, October 31, 9:00pm (This is my local PBS station's time, check PBS for the schedule in your area.) > "A Cemetery Special" Celebrates Some Old And Interesting Places Where People Are Buried > > > >From the PBS site: > > Everybody used to hang out at the cemetery. In the nineteenth century, lots of Americans would head for the local cemetery when they wanted to escape from industrial cities, when they wanted to relax and enjoy a green, natural setting, when they wanted to see some art, as well as when they wanted to remember and pay respect to the dearly departed. Back then, cemeteries sometimes got so crowded that tickets were required for admission. > > > Today cemeteries aren't quite so popular and full of people, but they are still valuable and often beautiful places full of surprises and stories of all sorts. So, several burial places from Key West to Fairbanks are celebrated in a new public television documentary titled "A Cemetery Special." A second broadcast of the program has been scheduled for Monday, October 31 at 10:00 p.m. ET on many stations. (check local listings.) > > > "The big problem with cemeteries," said producer and narrator Rick Sebak, "is that they are everywhere. People take great pride in their local cemeteries and often have special affection for the places where their loved ones are buried, but there are too many interesting and important burial places. That's one of the reasons why we decided to call this 'A Cemetery Special' rather than 'The Cemetery Special.' We couldn't be comprehensive. We squeeze nine cemeteries into one hour." > > > > "A Cemetery Special" includes a tour of several great "rural garden cemeteries" including Allegheny in Pittsburgh (where a family finds its long lost Uncle E.Z.), Mount Auburn in Boston (the first of the great American cemeteries) and Lake View in Cleveland (where there's a mighty memorial to President James A. Garfield and an annual celebration of the flowers on its Daffodil Hill). > > > At the Key West Cemetery in Florida, there's lots of local history and a few funny epitaphs amid the palm trees and the monuments. On Memorial Day, the town of Waterloo in New York's Finger Lakes region carries on the town's tradition of decorating the graves of soldiers who died in the line of duty. And in Atlanta, the Historic Oakland Cemetery is essentially full - it sold its last family plot back in 1884 - but its Foundation and many volunteers are working together now to restore its Victorian grandeur and to attract lots of visitors. > > > Sebak and his team of TV-documentary-makers also travel to the town of Colma, California, where there are seventeen cemeteries because the city of San Francisco decided to "evict" all its old cemeteries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In central Vermont, the folks at Rock of Ages' quarries take granite out of the ground and transform it into memorials, while local stonecutters and workers have made sure that Hope Cemetery in Barre has one of the world's best collections of unusual sculptures and monuments. > > > The last stop in "A Cemetery Special" is at Birch Hill Cemetery in Fairbanks where Alaskans often make their markers of wood and frequently leave a variety of personal objects and mementoes atop the graves. > > > > > > > > ==== GA-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink. > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

Bob, I am so glad you got to see this. It was not on in my SW Georgia area. Winn