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About this book
The story of the nation's largest mass graveyard and the nearly one million people buried thereābased on new documents and advances in DNA technology.
Once a Civil War prison and training site and later a psychiatric hospital, among other incarnations, Hart Island, just off the coast of the Bronx in the Long Island Sound, eventually became the repository for New York City's unclaimed dead. The island's mass graves are a microcosm of New York history, from the 1822 burial crisis to casualties of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and victims of multiple epidemics. Among the indigent and forgotten, important artists who died in poverty have also been discovered to be interred there, including Disney star Bobby Driscoll and playwright Leo Birinski.
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In this wide-ranging exploration touching on many aspects of the city's past, Michael T. Keene reveals the history of New York's potter's fieldāand the stories of some of its lost souls.
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Includes photographs
Once a Civil War prison and training site and later a psychiatric hospital, among other incarnations, Hart Island, just off the coast of the Bronx in the Long Island Sound, eventually became the repository for New York City's unclaimed dead. The island's mass graves are a microcosm of New York history, from the 1822 burial crisis to casualties of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and victims of multiple epidemics. Among the indigent and forgotten, important artists who died in poverty have also been discovered to be interred there, including Disney star Bobby Driscoll and playwright Leo Birinski.
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In this wide-ranging exploration touching on many aspects of the city's past, Michael T. Keene reveals the history of New York's potter's fieldāand the stories of some of its lost souls.
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Includes photographs
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1. The Burial Crisis of 1822
- 2. Louisa Van Slyke
- 3. Potterās Fields
- 4. Dawn Powell
- 5. Five Points
- 6. Bobby Driscoll
- 7. Bellevue
- 8. Sheila Terry
- 9. Misery Lane
- 10. Leonard Melfi
- 11. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 12. Leo Birinski
- 13. The Bowery
- 14. Leola Dickerson
- 15. AIDS
- 16. Cadaver Research
- 17. The Children
- 18. Lloyd āBufordā Threlkeld
- 19. The Hart Island Project
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author