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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club July (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed journalist\, podcaster\, and crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the chilling true story of a young woman whose scandalous life was rumored to be Nathaniel Hawthorne’s inspiration for The Scarlet Letter—and whose shocking death inspired the first true-crime book published in America. \nIn The Sinners All Bow\, acclaimed true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson travels back in time to 19th-century small-town America\, emboldened to finish the work Williams started nearly two centuries before. Using modern investigative advancements—such as “forensic knot analysis” to determine the cause of death\, the prosecutor’s notes from 1833\, and criminal profiling\, which was invented 55 years later with Jack the Ripper—Dawson fills in the gaps of Williams’ research to find the truth. Along the way\, she also examines how society decides who is the “right kind” of crime victim and how America’s long history of religious evangelism may have clouded the facts both in the 1830s and today. Ultimately\, The Sinners All Bow brings justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present\, anchored by three women who subverted the script they were given. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-july-in-person-3/
LOCATION:Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel\, 1801 E Street\, Southeast\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - In Person,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club July (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed journalist\, podcaster\, and crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the chilling true story of a young woman whose scandalous life was rumored to be Nathaniel Hawthorne’s inspiration for The Scarlet Letter—and whose shocking death inspired the first true-crime book published in America. \nIn The Sinners All Bow\, acclaimed true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson travels back in time to 19th-century small-town America\, emboldened to finish the work Williams started nearly two centuries before. Using modern investigative advancements—such as “forensic knot analysis” to determine the cause of death\, the prosecutor’s notes from 1833\, and criminal profiling\, which was invented 55 years later with Jack the Ripper—Dawson fills in the gaps of Williams’ research to find the truth. Along the way\, she also examines how society decides who is the “right kind” of crime victim and how America’s long history of religious evangelism may have clouded the facts both in the 1830s and today. Ultimately\, The Sinners All Bow brings justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present\, anchored by three women who subverted the script they were given. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-july-virtual-3/
LOCATION:Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel\, 1801 E Street\, Southeast\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - In Person,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:An engrossing\, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The most fatal virus known to science\, rabies — a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans — kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. \nIn this critically acclaimed exploration\, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years of the history\, science\, and cultural mythology of rabies. From Greek myths to zombie flicks\, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment\, Rabid is a fresh and often wildly entertaining look at one of humankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-september-in-person-3/
LOCATION:Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel\, 1801 E Street\, Southeast\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - In Person,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:An engrossing\, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The most fatal virus known to science\, rabies — a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans — kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. \nIn this critically acclaimed exploration\, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years of the history\, science\, and cultural mythology of rabies. From Greek myths to zombie flicks\, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment\, Rabid is a fresh and often wildly entertaining look at one of humankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-september-virtual-3/
LOCATION:Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel\, 1801 E Street\, Southeast\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - In Person,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club November (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:Gallot\, head curator of Père Lachaise and son of a grave stonemason\, pulls back the curtains on his otherworldly workplace of Père Lachaise—a cemetery crammed with tourists in the high season and mourners year-round\, but also a natural paradise\, where foxes roam\, birds flit between trees\, and wildflowers and moss encroach onto tombstones. \nGallot reveals the secret world of Père Lachaise—its Napoleonic origins\, its unusual graves and monuments—alongside touching stories from his working life in the cemetery. He demystifies his unusual and often misunderstood profession\, which in reality requires much more contact with living people than dead ones. In doing so\, he provides insight into the history of graveyards and our evolving relationship with death. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-november-in-person-3/
LOCATION:Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel\, 1801 E Street\, Southeast\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - In Person,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club November (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Gallot\, head curator of Père Lachaise and son of a grave stonemason\, pulls back the curtains on his otherworldly workplace of Père Lachaise—a cemetery crammed with tourists in the high season and mourners year-round\, but also a natural paradise\, where foxes roam\, birds flit between trees\, and wildflowers and moss encroach onto tombstones. \nGallot reveals the secret world of Père Lachaise—its Napoleonic origins\, its unusual graves and monuments—alongside touching stories from his working life in the cemetery. He demystifies his unusual and often misunderstood profession\, which in reality requires much more contact with living people than dead ones. In doing so\, he provides insight into the history of graveyards and our evolving relationship with death. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-november-virtual-3/
LOCATION:Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel\, 1801 E Street\, Southeast\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - In Person,Tombs & Tomes
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