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Radio Diaries: Angel Garcia

StoryCorps

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Society & Culture

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Today, an episode by our friends at Radio Diaries and Radiotopia from their latest series, "The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island," untangling mysteries from America's largest public cemetery.

Artwork by Juan Astasio.

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0:00.0

Hey Jasmine Morris here and I'm Michael Garoflo. We're coming back with a new season of the StoryCorps podcast next week,

0:07.0

but we wanted to give you something to listen to in the meantime, something that really blew us away.

0:11.0

It comes from our friends over at the Radio Diaries Podcast. that really

0:15.0

that really blew us away. If you don't know Radio Diaries,

0:17.0

the work they do is in the same spirit as StoryCorps.

0:20.0

It's really about letting people speak for themselves.

0:22.0

Their most recent series is called The Un- really about a

0:27.0

a place called Heart Island in New York City.

0:30.0

And on that island you'll find a huge cemetery, where there are no headstones or plaques, just white posts with numbers on them.

0:38.0

Each one marks a trench with about 150 coffins inside.

0:42.0

And in this series, Radio Diaries Unruiting. with about 150 coffins inside.

0:42.6

And in this series, Radio Diaries unravels the backstories

0:46.4

to some of the people buried there,

0:48.3

people forgotten or lost, until now.

1:02.0

From radio diaries, I'm Joe Richmond, and this is the unmarked graveyard, a series untangling mysteries from America's largest public cemetery.

1:05.0

Neil Harris was last seen in Inwood, New York on December 12, 2014.

1:10.0

Uncle Caesar was estranged from our family of 40 to 50 years.

1:13.7

The playwright, novelist and author of Happy Island, Miss Dawn Powell.

1:18.9

You can't help but wonder what her life has been.

1:21.9

So many questions, man. So many questions, man.

1:23.2

So many questions.

1:24.2

Over a million people are buried on Heart Island.

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