'San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries,' by Beth Winegarner, provides an in-depth look at the buried history of the city.
Well, human narratives, that’s sort of the key to journalism, isn’t it? You always want your central characters to inform the readers what the point of it all is. As a journalist, writing this book that was largely based on the journalism of the 19th century was really fun — going into newspaper archives and finding these old articles.
I was excited to maybe do a project with all those names, until I realized that they had left many burials out of the record — those belonging to Chinese people, and probably other non-white ethnic groups as well. So I go forward with that, because it wouldn’t have been fair to leave others out. It’s something that I probably think about a lot, just because I love going to cemeteries. They’re a great place for reflection. I also like reading the names of people. Everybody has an interesting name. Sometimes I’ll see details on the gravestone about their lives, and it’s just a little snapshot of a person.Throughout the book, I noticed a common trend. People were unhappy to be living near cemeteries, so no one took care of them.
I’ve never been in a cemetery where the graves were being exposed. So that would definitely make me want to improve them or talk to the city, to the caretakers of the cemetery.
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