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SUMMARY:Author Talk with M.L. Rio: An Event with East City Book Shop
DESCRIPTION:Come to Congressional Cemetery for an evening with the author M.L. Rio!\nSaturday\, September 28th\, 7:00 PM\nEast City Bookshop proudly partners with the Congressional Cemetery to welcome M.L. Rio to discuss her new novella\, Graveyard Shift\, about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave. M.L. Rio will be in conversation with NPR’s Tayla Burney. \nM.L. Rio is an author of dark academia and gothic novels and novellas\, a Shakespeare scholar and actor. With her debut novel\, If We Were Villains\, published in 2017\, Graveyard Shift is her newest work. Currently a D.C. resident\, she and her dog Marlowe are welcome with open arms to the Congressional Cemetery! \nTayla Burney is a Journalist\, Moderator\, Consultant\, and the Network Programming and Production Director for NPR. As the Curator and Creator of WAMU’s ‘In Your Bookstore’ series\, she is a bibliophile with invaluable insights to provide in conversation with M.L. Rio. We excitedly welcome her and her dog as well! \n  \n\nPlease reserve your free tickets HERE!\nPlease direct any ticketing inquiries to East City Bookshop. \nWe would like to thank our partner East City Bookshop for collaborating on this exciting event with us and bringing M.L. Rio and her amazing new book to Congressional Cemetery!\n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/author-talk-with-m-l-rio-an-event-with-east-city-book-shop/
LOCATION:Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel\, 1801 E Street\, Southeast\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Calling all bookworms! Join us this Spring at HCC’S first ever Tombs & Tomes Book Festival! Experience the enchantment of books\, stories\, and the written word in our unique and historic cemetery venue in Washington D.C. Dozens of local authors\, publishers\, purveyors of seasonal snacks\, and book-themed arts and crafts artists will be here at the cemetery\, ready to wow and dazzle all book lovers with their offerings. \nThis celebration of books and the written word will take place on Sunday April the 21st (with a rain date of the 28th) from 11:00 AM- 4:00 PM. \nThere will be several activities in addition to the market itself\, including a keynote author presentation\, a cemetery book author panel\, and a poetry open mic.\nThis is your opportunity to be a part of our cherished community\, connect with fellow literature enthusiasts and enjoy spring in the cemetery. \nProgramming Schedule\nWe are offering a set of FREE programs featuring a number of authors\, speakers\, interactive opportunities. All programs are in the chapel and seating is available on a first come\, first served basis.  See below for more information! \n11:30 AM- 12:30 PM\, Keynote Presentation – Who Tells Your Story?: Re-thinking American History\n \nUntil recently\, history has been taught from the limited perspective of a few prominent individuals. These mostly white\, male narratives obscure how real social change occurs for most people in society. Yet including these overlooked narratives makes the process of writing history far more challenging. In our first program of the Tombs and Tomes book festival\, Congressional Cemetery is proud to host award winning author Rebecca Boggs Roberts to contribute her perspective and insight on addressing these challenges. \nRebecca Roberts – About our Speaker:\nRebecca Boggs Roberts is an award-winning writer and educator. Previous jobs include journalist\, tour guide\, forensic anthropologist\, political consultant\, jazz singer\, & radio talk show host. Now Deputy Director of events at the Library of Congress\, she lives in DC with her husband\, three sons\, and a long-eared hound. \n\n  \n1:00 PM- 2:00 PM\, Panel Discussion – Writing the Dead: Perspectives From Cemetery Authors\nMost media around cemeteries typically strays into the realm of fiction. Yet these often settings of spooky books and movies can overlook the true beauty\, history\, and even meaning of cemeteries\, graveyards\, and other places of rest.  But how to do it? How do you write about a cemetery? Who do you write about? What images do you include? Are there any unique challenges? Is it irreverent? To answer these questions and more\, we invite you to join us for a panel discussion featuring cemetery authors and photographers! \nGreg Melville\, Kurt Deion\, Andrew Garn \nAbout our Panelists:\nGreg Melville\, Kurt Deion\, and Andrew Garn have all authored or contributed to books on cemeteries. We encourage you to learn more about their work by clicking the links above! \n2:30 PM-3:30 PM – Poetry Open Mic\nBooks aren’t the only form of the written word that we adore. We dig poems and even more\, we LOVE poets\, including you. Are you a massive Edgar Allen Poe fan? Or perhaps you a more of a Walt Whitman person? Or maybe you moon (or day) light as poet yourself? Whether you want to share a poem you or someone else wrote\, we invite you to join us for an Open Mic poetry session. Get inspired\, don’t be shy\, and join us in celebrating the written word! \nOur Tombs and Tomes Poetry Open Mic Prompt: Life\, Death\, and Our Relationship with the Written Word.  \nOpen to all \n  \n \n  \nWhile admission is free and reservations are not required\, we would appreciate if you RSVPed here so we have a sense of how many attendees to expect. Thanks!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-festival/
LOCATION:DC
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Dog Friendly,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Book Signing Event: Grave featuring author Allison C. Meier
DESCRIPTION:Please join Congressional Cemetery for a book signing event for author Allison C. Meier’s new book\, Grave from the Object Lessons series. The author will be present to sign books and meet and greet attendees. Books will also be for sale at the event. A complimentary tour of HCC’s historic grounds will be offered with the author in attendance. \nThe event is free to attend but we ask that you please RSVP here!\nYou can purchase your own copy of Grave here!\nThe event is rain or shine. In the event of inclement weather\, the book signing will take place in the chapel. \nAbout the book:\nObject Lessons is a series of short\, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \nGrave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour guide\, Allison C. Meier has spent more time walking among tombstones than most. Even for her\, the grave has largely been invisible\, an out of the way and unobtrusive marker of death. However\, graves turn out to be not always so subtle\, reverent\, or permanent. \nWhile the indigent and unidentified have frequently been interred in mass graves\, a fate brought into the public eye during the COVID-19 pandemic\, the practice today is not unlike burials in the potter’s fields of the colonial era. Burial is not the only option\, of course\, and Meier analyzes the rise of cremation\, green burial\, and new practices like human composting\, investigating what is next for the grave and how existing spaces of death can be returned to community life. \nObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. \nAbout the author:\n \nAllison C. Meier is a writer and researcher based in New York City\, USA. Her writing on visual culture\, history\, architecture has appeared in the New York Times\, Curbed\, Lapham’s Quarterly\, CityLab\, Narratively\, Mental Floss\, Smithsonian\, New Inquiry\, Slate\, Urban Omnibus\, Fine Books\, Artsy\, and others. She moonlights as a cemetery tour guide at New York burial grounds and is a licensed New York City sightseeing guide. Previously\, she was a staff writer at Hyperallergic and a senior editor at Atlas Obscura. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/book-signing-event-grave-featuring-author-allison-meier/
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SUMMARY:Book Signing Event: Presidential Grave Hunter
DESCRIPTION:Please join Congressional Cemetery for a book signing event for author Kurt Deion’s new book\, Presidential Grave Hunter: One Kid’s Quest to Visit the Tomb of Every President and Vice President. The author will be present to sign books and meet and greet attendees. Books will also be for sale at the event. A complimentary tour of many of the gravesites related to the presidency and vice presidency will be offered as a part of the event\, with the author in attendance. \nThe event is free to attend but we ask that you please RSVP here!\nYou can purchase your own copy of Presidential Grave Hunter here!\nThe event is rain or shine. In the event of inclement weather\, the book signing will take place in the chapel. \nAbout the book:\nIn 2003\, nine-year-old presidential enthusiast Kurt Deion presented his father with an audacious request: would he help him follow in the footsteps of historian Richard Norton Smith and C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb by taking him to visit the final resting place of each dead U.S. president? He got all he asked for\, and more. \nDeion’s journey to these tombs\, and from elementary school neophyte to college history major\, was unorthodox. With his zany\, boundary-pushing father at the wheel\, the straight-laced youngster found himself sneaking a camera past Secret Service agents\, purposely locked in a cemetery enclosed with barbed wire\, and handcuffed to the former Dallas homicide detective who was tethered to alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was shot by Jack Ruby. Most daringly\, he (reluctantly) gained entry to a vice president’s private family burial ground in order to possibly become the lone person to have visited each presidential and vice presidential grave\, collectively. \nIn this history-driven memoir\, Deion reconstructs his decade-long\, cross-country quest and analyzes the evolution of his perspective on the commanders-in-chief and what it means to visit a cemetery. \nAbout the author:\nKURT DEION is a public historian\, author\, guest speaker\, and the presidential expert for RoadsideAmerica.com. He holds an M.A. in history. At age 14 he launched kurtshistoricsites.com as a means to both document his travels and to encourage others to visit gravesites and engage in hands-on history. His website and his cemetery pilgrimages were the subject of a 2015 interview on the C-SPAN show Q&A. \n \nFrom the author: “Elbridge Gerry is interred at my all-time favorite burial ground: Congressional Cemetery in Washington\, D.C. Here\, on November 12\, 2011\, I sit beneath the gateway arch prior to its restoration.” \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Beverly Gage: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Book Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to welcome award-winning Yale historian Beverly Gage\, author of the landmark new book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century\, to Congressional Cemetery on Sunday\, May 21 at 1:00 PM. At Hoover’s graveside\, Gage will speak on the life and historical legacy of lifelong DC resident J. Edgar Hoover\, followed by a Q&A and a book signing with the author. Remarks will begin promptly at 1:00 PM and limited seating at the graveside is available on a first come\, first served basis. The event is rain or shine and beverages will be available for purchase. In addition\, complimentary docent led tours will be offered at the conclusion of the Q&A session. In the event of severe weather\, remarks will take place inside our historic chapel. \nTo attend the event\, simply arrive at our front gate at the corner of Potomac Ave. and E St. and you will be directed to the event area. City street parking is available and we are a short walk away from the Potomac Avenue and Stadium Armory Metro stations \nSmoking is prohibited and no dogs are allowed at the event. \nThe event is free to attend but we ask that you please RSVP HERE. \nIf you would like a copy of the book\, please support our partner\, East City Bookshop\, and purchase them HERE. Books will also be available for purchase at the event. \n \nSpecial thanks to J. Stephen Morrison\, Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies\, (CSIS)\, longtime Capitol Hill resident and K9 Corps Member. He was instrumental in helping conceive\, plan and organize the event. \nAbout the Book:\n \n“A nuanced portrait in a league with the best of Ron Chernow and David McCullough”—The Wall Street Journal \n“Masterful…This book is an enduring\, formidable accomplishment\, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work”—The Washington Post \n“Revelatory…an acknowledgment of the complexities that made Hoover who he was\, while charging the turbulent currents that eventually swept him aside.”—The New York Times \n“[A] crisply written\, prodigiously researched\, and frequently astonishing new biography”—The New Yorker \nThe New York Times “TOP 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022” \nThe Atlantic “Top 10 Books of the Year” \nThe Washington Post “Top Ten Books of 2022” \nA major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today’s conservative political landscape. \nWe remember him as a bulldog–squat frame\, bulging wide-set eyes\, fearsome jowls–but in 1924\, when he became director of the FBI\, he had been the trim\, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state\, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater\, riddled with scandal\, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people–many of them communists or racial minorities or both– did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then stayed there\, decade after decade\, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history. \nBeverly Gage’s monumental work  explores the full sweep of Hoover’s life and career\, from his birth in 1895 to a modest Washington civil-service family through his death in 1972. In her  nuanced and definitive portrait\, Gage shows how Hoover was more than a one-dimensional tyrant and schemer who strong-armed the rest of the country into submission. As FBI director from 1924 through his death in 1972\, he was a confidant\, counselor\, and adversary to eight U.S. presidents\, four Republicans and four Democrats.  Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson did the most to empower   him\, yet his closest friend among the eight was fellow anticommunist warrior Richard Nixon.  Hoover was not above blackmail and intimidation\, but he also embodied conservative values ranging from anticommunism to white supremacy to a crusading and politicized interpretation of Christianity. This garnered him the admiration of millions of Americans. He stayed in office for so long because many people\, from the highest reaches of government down to the grassroots\, wanted him there and supported what he was doing\, thus creating the template that the political right has followed to transform its party. \nG-Man places Hoover back where he once stood in American political history–not at the fringes\, but at the center–and uses his story to explain the trajectories of governance\, policing\, race\, ideology\, political culture\, and federal power as they evolved over the course of the 20th century. \nAbout the Author:\nBeverly Gage is professor of 20th-century American history at Yale. She is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded\, which examined the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She writes frequently for the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker\, among other publications \n \n 
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/g-man-j-edgar-hoover-and-the-making-of-the-american-century/
LOCATION:Historic Congressional Cemetery: J. Edgar Hoover Graveside\, 1801 E ST SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Author John Wasowicz
DESCRIPTION:  \n‘Murder in the Museum’ featured in Gadsby’s Corner by John Adam Wasowicz. Artwork by Julianne Woehrle. \nJoin Author John Wasowicz at Historic Congressional Cemetery for a book signing event commemorating the release of his newest book\, Gadsby’s Corner\, a fictional CLUE-like murder mystery that unfolds at Gadsby’s Tavern Museum in Old Town Alexandria\, VA. In the middle of a “Murder in the Museum” skit\, a real murder occurs\, sending a prosecutor into trial mode as he interviews a group of quirky suspects to solve the crime. The event entails a book signing by the author and a complimentary tour of the Cemetery\, featuring a stop by John Gadsby’s final resting place. Admission is free and tickets are not required. However\, please RSVP HERE if you plan to attend. \n \n  \nJohn Adam Wasowicz is the author of the Mo Katz legal mysteries\, including Roaches Run (2021)\, Slaters Lane (2020)\, Jones Point (2019)\, and Daingerfield Island (2017). Wasowicz\, who resides in Mt. Vernon\, VA\, has practiced law for over 35 years. He began his legal career as an Assistant Commonwealth Attorney in Arlington\, VA. Following a decade in private practice\, he began a career as a Federal attorney in 2005. Prior to earning a law degree\, Wasowicz worked for the late Edward W. Brooke (R-MA) on Capitol Hill. He earned a BA in English from Windham College and holds Masters degrees in journalism from Marquette University and public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. He earned his law degree from Catholic University in Washington\, DC. Wasowicz was born and raised in Chicopee\, MA.
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