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World's Greatest Cemeteries
Cave Hill Cemetery
Sunday
Oct 27
30 Minutes
Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Ky., a 300 acre arboretum, birding space and historic burial ground, is the resting place for Muhammad Ali, Col. Harland Sanders, suffragist Susan Look Avery and Revolutionary War officer George Rogers Clark. -
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World's Greatest Cemeteries
Cave Hill Cemetery
Thursday
Oct 31
30 Minutes
Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Ky., a 300 acre arboretum, birding space and historic burial ground, is the resting place for Muhammad Ali, Col. Harland Sanders, suffragist Susan Look Avery and Revolutionary War officer George Rogers Clark. -
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
Thursday
Oct 31
30 Minutes
Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery boasts "Author's Ridge," with Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and more; side trip to Walden Pond, historical reenactments and a surprise for "I Love Lucy" fans. -
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World's Greatest Cemeteries
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati
Thursday
Oct 31
30 Minutes
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati; a reenactor portrays Civil War Medal of Honor winner David Urbanski; Dov Behr Manischewitz; traditional Jewish funerary iconography; a look at 19th-century immigration from Germany. -
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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
Thursday
Oct 31
30 Minutes
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans, a Catholic cemetery with multicultural roots; Asian immigration; tombs include Madame Marie Laveau, activist Homer Plessy, chess master Paul Morphy and a mysterious pyramid for actor Nicolas Cage. -
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Laurel Hill Cemetery
Thursday
Oct 31
30 Minutes
Exploring West Laurel Hill Cemetery near Philadelphia, including Medallion Garden; interments include jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr., Civil War Gen. George Meade and inventor Martha Coston. -
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Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY
Thursday
Oct 31
30 Minutes
Touring New York's Woodlawn Cemetery, the final resting place of Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, Bat Masterson, Celia Cruz, Dorothy Parker, Miles Davis, Jokichi Takamine and Irving Berlin. -
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World's Greatest Cemeteries
Sunday
Nov 3
30 Minutes
Visual explorations of the world's greatest cemeteries.
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