This is the grave of Tim Russert. The most overrated media figure of the last half-century, Russert, as he would tell you over and over and over again in an attempt to create authenticity for himself,
This is the grave of Andrew Jackson Hamilton. You can read the historical society biography above, but we’ll go ahead and expand on this a bit. Hamilton was born in 1815 in Huntsville, Alabama.
This is the grave of Claude Hudspeth. Born in 1877 in Medina, Texas, Hudspeth grew up as part of the white elite dominating Texas. This was an openly racist regime of land owners and law enforcement.
This is the grave of Rachel Carson. Born in 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Carson grew up outside of Pittsburgh, reading stories about animals and falling in love with the natural world. She went t
This is the grave of Mississippi John Hurt. Born in 1893 in Teoc, Mississippi, John Hurt grew up as part of the impoverished sharecropping Black working class of the South. He learned to play guitar a
This is the grave of Lincoln Steffens. Born in 1866 in San Francisco, Steffens grew up super wealthy, mostly in Sacramento. In fact, the house he grew up in later became the California governor’
This is the grave of Sam Spiegel. Born in 1901 in Jaroslaw, Poland (though it was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Spiegel grew up in a wealthy Jewish household. His father was a tobacco who
This is the grave of Glenn Davis. Born in 1924 in Claremont, California, Davis was a great high school football player out there, leading his team to a state title in 1942. This was in the middle of W