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Tombs & Tomes Book Club January (In Person)
Tombs & Tomes Book Club January (In Person)
Tombs and Tomes is Congressional Cemetery's book club. We meet every other month in our historic Chapel (unless otherwise noted), and we discuss primarily non-fiction books. Our book selections have no rhyme and reason; however, our choices tend to stray towards the macabre, as is natural for a cemetery book club. Our very first meeting was in September 2013 and we chose to read Stiff, by Mary Roach (pictured here with Doug Graves, Congressional Cemetery's mascot and NOT a real skeleton!).
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Tombs & Tomes Book Club January (Virtual)
Tombs & Tomes Book Club January (Virtual)
Selection: Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville Melville’s Over My Dead Body is a lively (pun intended) and wide-ranging history of cemeteries, places that have mirrored the passing eras in history but have also shaped it. Cemeteries have given birth to landscape architecture and famous parks, as well as […]
