Sitemap - 2024 - The Silent Sod

Highlight reel

Rough housing on the Mauretania's fast trip

A Very Merry Christmas tree photo

Medieval bones and me

Spirit of the Yuletide

A visit to Spring Grove Cemetery

Half-staff sunset

Frances Wright and her experiment

Wendell Phillips

Ye Thanksgiving Dinner

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Thomas Jefferson: On Grief

Love is strong as death

The daring stowaways of Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic

Odd comforts during restless times

John Adams: an interesting precedent

The worst person buried here

Spooky dolls

Smitten at the cemetery

Geocities and a Gatlinburg graveyard

Discussing death

John Adams and his pen pal Dr. Benjamin Rush

Scattered, sealed, or sent into space

A fatal change in plans

An everyday burial site

Power outage with kappas

Moving day

George Washington and taphophobia

Blossoms at night

A smitten stowaway on the Carpathia, the Titanic rescue ship

Time crashing my grandmother's bridal shower

Caption this

Meeting the Marquis

Henry Boyd

A grave that winks

Stumbling upon a story

Reimagining the past with AI

Alphonso Taft

You can't take it with you

Judging a book by its funerary symbolism

The self-sacrificing devotion of women

Time Enough at Last

Sand through the hourglass

Climbing the right branch

It's Connections!

Cincinnati pioneers final resting place

Eastern Riddlers

John Quincy Adams: writings from a young future president.

9 feet deep

Boyrereau Brinch: a freedom fight within a freedom fight

One more ride

Margaret Hill Morris writes to amuse her sister

Massacre Day

Presidential predicaments Pt. 2

90's mom cleaning playlist

Presidential predicaments

A Juneteenth reflection on surnames

Some roses I remember

The year that changed everything

In honor of D-Day 2024

Romanticizing World War II

Another Mrs. Beach related mystery

Does your future resonate with you?

Honoring local fallen soldiers

The trial of Mr. Beach

The glare

The long passage

Fearing the cosmos

A close call

A futile request for a quiet parade

Lincoln's Waffle Shop

Where were Black Atlantans during the Confederate Memorial Day parade in 1874?

Erected by myself

What is the longest distance between two places?

Remembering the rememberers

How about forever?

36 questions for your high school crush

Finding your local Titanic history

Living descendants

The AIDS epidemic, a contemporary triptych, and funeral rules

The hellebores of war and memory

"Professor Todd of the Cloudy Eclipses"

Standing well among white people

A memory of what never happened

The legacy of Bill Yopp

The Irish Potato Famine and me

William Finch & Daffodils Pt. 2

Who was Helen's mother?

A bus, a song, and the first Washington Monument

William Finch & Daffodils Pt. 1

Monument Interruptus

Call me a Daffhead

The first Lincoln memorial

The Department of Hanging Around

From Olustee to Amherst

My camellia friend

The day the light went out

A train ride with the ashes of your literary hero

Introducing Photo-synthesis

What do we owe the dead?