Elizabeth Broman
Elizabeth Broman is a graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a Master's Degree In both Library Science and Art History and is recently retired as a Librarian at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, in New York City. Her MA thesis was "Egyptian Revival Funerary Art in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY". She continues to pursue Egyptian Revival all these years later and has done presentations on pet cemeteries, hair and mourning jewelry.
146
Aug. 10, 2023
Episode 146 - A Gilded Age Tale: The Owl Mausoleum of James Gordon Bennett Jr
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. On the western side of Paris, France, not far from the Eiffel Tower, is Cimetière de Passy, a small cemetery where a simple mausoleum whose doors are topped by an owl sits among its fellow graves in a most unassuming manner. Yet the story of the man who rests inside this mausoleum is one straight from the Gilded Age and had fate delt him a different hand, his remains may have been laid to rest in...
Guest: Elizabeth Broman