2012 Northern California Autumn Cemetery Tours & Events
The Graves family monument, Cypress Lawn Many cemeteries host tours or fundraisers in the autumn to increase awareness and raise funds for the upkeep of these fragile community treasures. I hope this...
View ArticleCemetery of the Week #85: the Gravesite of Emperor Norton
Woodlawn’s lovely entrance Woodlawn Memorial Park 1000 El Camino Real Colma, California 94014 Telephone: (650) 755-1727 Established: 1904 Size: 57 acres Number of interments: 90,000+ In early San...
View ArticleColma, Before the Graveyards
Colma, CA by Michael Smookler My rating: 4 of 5 stars The only thing that keeps this book from getting 5 stars is that it isn’t longer. I have several books on the cemeteries of Colma, California, so...
View ArticleTraveling through Movies
St. Louis #1, New Orleans I’m working hard to promote The Haunted Mansion Project: Year Two, a collection of ghost-hunting reports and short stories which I edited, with a series of interviews on my...
View ArticleCemetery of the Week #116: Wyatt Earp’s gravesite
View of Hills of Eternity Hills of Eternity Memorial Park 1299 El Camino Real Colma, California 94014 Telephone: (650) 755-4700 Established: 1889 Size: 20 “graciously landscaped” acres at the foot of...
View ArticleCemetery of the Week #135: Temple Emanu-El’s Home of Peace
A view in Home of Peace Home of Peace (Navai Shalome) 1299 El Camino Real Colma, California 94014 Telephone: (650) 755-4700 Established: January 1, 1888 Size: 20 “graciously landscaped” acres at the...
View ArticleCypress Lawn’s Book Club
Colma’s lovely Cypress Lawn Memorial Park is trying something new: a book club! The club idea is so new that they don’t have it listed on the Heritage Foundation’s website yet, but the first two...
View ArticleCemetery of the Week #165: Olivet Memorial Park
Olivet Memorial Park Also called Mount Olivet Cemetery 1601 Hillside Boulevard Colma, California 94014 Telephone: (650) 755-0322 Established: 1896 Size: 65 acres Number of Interments: 100,000 At the...
View ArticleCemetery Travel in San Francisco
The time has come to gather all the San Francisco cemetery pieces spread across Cemetery Travel into one place. These posts served as research for the Laurel Hill Cemetery speech I gave at the Swedish...
View ArticleAt Cypress Lawn this Weekend
This Sunday, September 16, I will show some of my favorite photographs from 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die at one of my favorite cemeteries in the book, Colma’s Cypress Lawn Memorial Park....
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