The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
Series produced by Radio Diaries
Off the coast of the Bronx is a narrow strip of land where over one million people are buried. Hart Island is America's largest public cemetery. For over 150 years, the island has been mostly off limits. The Umarked Graveyard shares seven stories of individual buried there, the lives they lived and the people they left behind.
Hart Island, an uninhabited strip of land off the Bronx, is America’s largest public cemetery, sometimes known as a “potter’s field.” Since 1869, more than a million people have been buried on Hart Island, including early AIDS patients, unidentified and unclaimed New Yorkers, immigrants, incarcerated people, artists, and about ten percent of New Yorkers who died of COVID-19. Many people buried there are shrouded in anonymity. The island has no headstones or plaques, just numbered markers. Simple pine coffins are stacked in mass graves. In many cases, explanations for how bodies came to be buried there are hard to find. This series tells the stories of seven people buried on Hart Island through a range of circumstances. Some were lost in the system after their deaths, while others... Show full description
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