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Vamping in Hollywood

Vamping in Hollywood   If you haven’t strolled through Hollywood Cemetery, or if it’s been a while, October is the perfect month to get out and walk the grounds. Hollywood was established in 1849 during the Victorian trend of making urban cemeteries more park-like and a place for people to meet, play and remember their…

Letting the Spirits Move You

The Victorians had a romantically interesting view of cemeteries and designed them to be more park or museum than burial ground. The living would picnic and play on the grounds among the headstones, and the dead would communicate through symbols on the elaborately carved monuments. Fortunately, one of the best examples of a Victorian cemetery…