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Wandering Through A Graveyard Full Of Stories

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Walk through a cemetery with Michael Griffith - and he’ll spot not only the stories on the stones, but the stories between them.

You can read about the connections in his collection of essays - “The Speaking Stone:  Stories Cemeteries Tell” - his wanderings through Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum in Cincinnati, the third-largest cemetery in this country.

 

  

Michael - a South Carolina native - is a longtime resident of Cincinnati and is a Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati.

 

  

  

 

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