Radio Diaries
Radio Diaries
Radio Diaries & Radiotopia
HOUR SPECIAL: Stories from the Unmarked Graveyard
53 minutes Posted Jul 18, 2024 at 4:00 am.
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Hart Island is America’s largest public cemetery—sometimes known as a “potter’s field.” The island has no headstones or plaques, just numbered markers. More than a million people are buried on Hart Island in mass graves, there are no headstones or plaques, just numbered markers. In this special, hour-long episode we're untangling mysteries about how people ended up on Hart Island, the lives they lived and the people they left behind.

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