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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club January (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:In February 1959\, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries\, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes\, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers\, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened. This gripping work of literary nonfiction delves into the mystery through unprecedented access to the hikers’ own journals and photographs\, rarely seen government records\, dozens of interviews\, and the author’s retracing of the hikers’ fateful journey in the Russian winter. A fascinating portrait of the young hikers in the Soviet era\, and a skillful interweaving of the hikers’ narrative\, the investigators’ efforts\, and the author’s investigations\, here for the first time is the real story of what happened that night on Dead Mountain. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-january-in-person-4/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T183000
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club January (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:In February 1959\, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries\, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes\, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers\, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened. This gripping work of literary nonfiction delves into the mystery through unprecedented access to the hikers’ own journals and photographs\, rarely seen government records\, dozens of interviews\, and the author’s retracing of the hikers’ fateful journey in the Russian winter. A fascinating portrait of the young hikers in the Soviet era\, and a skillful interweaving of the hikers’ narrative\, the investigators’ efforts\, and the author’s investigations\, here for the first time is the real story of what happened that night on Dead Mountain. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-january-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T200000
DTSTAMP:20260331T163154Z
CREATED:20251114T175033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T163154Z
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club March (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:When the opossum feels threatened\, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets\, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum\, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality\, and demonstrates that the concept of death\, far from being a uniquely human attribute\, is widespread in the animal kingdom. \nWith humor and empathy\, Susana Monsó tells the stories of ants who attend their own funerals\, chimpanzees who clean the teeth of their dead\, dogs who snack on their caregivers\, crows who avoid the places where they saw a carcass\, elephants obsessed with collecting ivory\, and whales who carry their dead for weeks. Monsó\, one of today’s leading experts on animal cognition and ethics\, shows how there are more ways to conceive of mortality than the human way\, and challenges the notion that the only emotional reactions to death worthy of our attention are ones that resemble our own. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-march-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T200000
DTSTAMP:20251114T175029Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251114T175029Z
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club March (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:When the opossum feels threatened\, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets\, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum\, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality\, and demonstrates that the concept of death\, far from being a uniquely human attribute\, is widespread in the animal kingdom. \nWith humor and empathy\, Susana Monsó tells the stories of ants who attend their own funerals\, chimpanzees who clean the teeth of their dead\, dogs who snack on their caregivers\, crows who avoid the places where they saw a carcass\, elephants obsessed with collecting ivory\, and whales who carry their dead for weeks. Monsó\, one of today’s leading experts on animal cognition and ethics\, shows how there are more ways to conceive of mortality than the human way\, and challenges the notion that the only emotional reactions to death worthy of our attention are ones that resemble our own. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-march-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260512T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260512T200000
DTSTAMP:20260331T163030Z
CREATED:20260331T163030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T163030Z
UID:10002141-1778610600-1778616000@congressionalcemetery.org
SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club May (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:What if we responded to death… by throwing a party? \nThis Party’s Dead is the account of Erica Buist’s journey to seven different countries in order to understand how other cultures deal with mortal terror\, how they move past the knowledge that they’re going to die in order to live happily day-to-day\, how they celebrate rather than shy away from the topic of death – and how when this openness and acceptance are passed down through the generations\, death suddenly doesn’t seem so scary after all. \nFrom Mexico to Nepal\, Sicily\, Thailand\, Madagascar\, Japan\, and finally Indonesia – with a stopover in New Orleans\, where the dead outnumber the living ten to one – Follow Erica as she searches for the answers to both fundamental and unexpected questions around death anxiety. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-may-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T200000
DTSTAMP:20260331T163055Z
CREATED:20260331T163055Z
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club May (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:What if we responded to death… by throwing a party? \nThis Party’s Dead is the account of Erica Buist’s journey to seven different countries in order to understand how other cultures deal with mortal terror\, how they move past the knowledge that they’re going to die in order to live happily day-to-day\, how they celebrate rather than shy away from the topic of death – and how when this openness and acceptance are passed down through the generations\, death suddenly doesn’t seem so scary after all. \nFrom Mexico to Nepal\, Sicily\, Thailand\, Madagascar\, Japan\, and finally Indonesia – with a stopover in New Orleans\, where the dead outnumber the living ten to one – Follow Erica as she searches for the answers to both fundamental and unexpected questions around death anxiety. \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-may-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260714T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260714T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T150122Z
CREATED:20260514T135807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T150122Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T200000
DTSTAMP:20260514T135924Z
CREATED:20260514T135924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T135924Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T200000
DTSTAMP:20260723T194746Z
CREATED:20260723T194711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260723T194746Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260909T200000
DTSTAMP:20260723T194713Z
CREATED:20260723T194713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260723T194713Z
UID:10002210-1788978600-1788984000@congressionalcemetery.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260910T173036Z
CREATED:20260910T173036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T173036Z
UID:10002252-1794335400-1794340800@congressionalcemetery.org
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261111T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261111T200000
DTSTAMP:20260910T173038Z
CREATED:20260910T173038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T173038Z
UID:10002251-1794421800-1794427200@congressionalcemetery.org
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
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://congressionalcemetery.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/214351536.jpg
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