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Tombstone Tuesdays: Kathy Benjamin, author of “Funerals to Die For”

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Tombstone Tuesdays – a new streaming show!

Tombstone Tuesdays is a fun weekly show about historic cemeteries and those who love exploring them! Each week, I will interview a variety of guests about historic cemeteries, unique graveyards, funeral customs, research techniques, and other fascinating topics.

How to watch Tombstone Tuesdays?

Tui Snider’s Tombstone Tuesdays streams live on YouTube and Facebook. To see which show is coming next, visit my YouTube channel. On YouTube, you can even set a reminder for showtime.

What time is the live show? Every Tuesday: 4pm Central Time (5pm ET, 3pm MT, 2pm PT, 10pm UK)

Replays? You can catch show replays here: Tombstone Tuesdays

Show topic: Kathy Benjamin, author of “Funerals to Die For”

January 12, 2021 show: I’m excited to have the author of Funerals to Die For, Kathy Benjamin on the show to talk about her work:

Kathy Benjamin is a writer and editor at Grunge.com, and a former columnist at Cracked.com and MentalFloss.com. 

In 2013, Kathy wrote Funerals to Die For: The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever (Adams Media). She also contributed to Cracked.com’s publication The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn’t Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew (Plume, 2013). Her new book, It’s Your Funeral: Plan the Celebration of a Lifetime Before It’s Too Late, is coming Summer 2021 from Quirk Books.

She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Simon and her dog, Briscoe.

Social media:

 Twitter https://twitter.com/KathyBenjamin  
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kathythewriter

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kabenjamin18/

What are your questions for Kathy Benjamin?

What would you like me to ask Kathy Benjamin? If you are reading this prior to the show date, feel free to leave any questions you may have for Teal as a comment below and I’ll do my best to work them into the show!

Cemetery Photos of the Week

Featured historic cemetery photos: As part of each Tombstone Tuesday show, I will share photos that my newsletter readers have sent me. (Replying to my newsletter is the absolute best way to reach me, just so you know!)

This week’s photos: On the February 2, 2020 show I will be featuring photos from one of my weekly newsletter readers.

Want YOUR photos featured on the show?

Want YOUR cemetery photos featured? If you have interesting photos related to the topic of historic cemeteries, I’d love to feature them on Tombstone Tuesdays. Or maybe you have a research tip, or a photo that you think viewers will enjoy.

Here’s how: Sign up for my weekly Sunday newsletter, if you are not already subscribed. Then, hit reply any of the newsletters or even the welcome aboard email.

Guest ideas?

If there are specific guests or topics you would like to see on Tombstone Tuesdays, please tell me in a comment on this blog post. Thanks so much!

READ MY BOOKS: To see a list of all my published books, check out Tui  Snider’s Amazon page. 

Learn more about offbeat travel & historic cemeteries at my YouTube Channel

Want a FREE book? Click below:

Tombstone Tuesdays: Quirky Graveyards with David Kravetz

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Tombstone Tuesdays – a new streaming show!

Tombstone Tuesdays is a fun weekly show about historic cemeteries and those who love exploring them! Each week, I will interview a variety of guests about historic cemeteries, unique graveyards, funeral customs, research techniques, and other fascinating topics.

How to watch Tombstone Tuesdays?

Tui Snider’s Tombstone Tuesdays streams live on YouTube and Facebook. To see which show is coming next, visit my YouTube channel. On YouTube, you can even set a reminder for showtime.

What time is the live show? Every Tuesday: 4pm Central Time (5pm ET, 3pm MT, 2pm PT, 10pm UK)

Replays? You can catch show replays here: Tombstone Tuesdays

Show topic: Quirky Tombstones with David Kravetz

January 26, 2021 show: This week’s show guest is fellow author and lover of all things quirky, David Kravetz:

David Kravetz, 64, resides in Lexington, KY and is the owner and creative mind behind Sumoflam Productions, where he works with dotcoms, writes blogs and does nature and travel photography. He also currently manages the TV and Movie databases for comicbook.com and popculture.com, part of the ViacomCBS family.

He is a freelance travelographer and focuses on the normal, the wacky, the wonderful and the quirky things of this wide world. His popular travel blog is called Less Beaten Paths and has nearly 400 posts about offbeat and back roads travel. 

Among the places he visits are unique cemeteries, graves and more. He is ofttimes heard saying, “There’s the dead center of town,” as he passes cemeteries on his road trips around America.

David also has sites that present photography of the world as he sees it. Sumoflam, as he is known to thousands of friends and followers around the world, has a passion for traveling and has been to all 50 of the states in the United States, as well as five provinces in Canada, numerous states in Mexico, the Philippines, China, and Korea. 

He lived in Japan for 6 years and is fluent in Japanese. He is the father of five and has TEN grandchildren who call him Grampz. He will celebrate his 42nd anniversary with his sweetheart in July 2021. He will always admit that he truly Married Up!!

What are your questions for David Kravetz?

What would you like me to ask David Kravetz? If you are reading this prior to the show date, feel free to leave any questions you may have for Teal as a comment below and I’ll do my best to work them into the show!

Delight Cemetery – photo (c) David Kravetz

Cemetery Photos of the Week

Featured historic cemetery photos: As part of each Tombstone Tuesday show, I will share photos that my newsletter readers have sent me. (Replying to my newsletter is the absolute best way to reach me, just so you know!)

This week’s photos: On the January 26, 2020 show I will be featuring some interesting historic cemetery photos from one of my newsletter readers.

Want YOUR photos featured on the show?

Want YOUR cemetery photos featured? If you have interesting photos related to the topic of historic cemeteries, I’d love to feature them on Tombstone Tuesdays. Or maybe you have a research tip, or a photo that you think viewers will enjoy.

Here’s how: Sign up for my weekly Sunday newsletter, if you are not already subscribed. Then, hit reply to any of the newsletters or even the welcome aboard email.

Guest ideas?

If there are specific guests or topics you would like to see on Tombstone Tuesdays, please tell me in a comment on this blog post. Thanks so much!

READ MY BOOKS: To see a list of all my published books, check out Tui  Snider’s Amazon page. 

Learn more about offbeat travel & historic cemeteries at my YouTube Channel

Want a FREE book? Click below:

Tombstone Tuesdays: Cemetery Historian – David M. Habben

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Tombstone Tuesdays – streaming show!

Tombstone Tuesdays is a fun weekly show about historic cemeteries and those who love exploring them! Each week, I will interview a variety of guests about historic cemeteries, unique graveyards, funeral customs, research techniques, and other fascinating topics.

How to watch Tombstone Tuesdays?

Tui Snider’s Tombstone Tuesdays streams live on YouTube and Facebook. To see which show is coming next, visit my YouTube channel. On YouTube, you can even set a reminder for showtime.

What time is the live show? Every Tuesday: 4pm Central Time (5pm ET, 3pm MT, 2pm PT, 10pm UK)

Replays? You can catch show replays here: Tombstone Tuesdays

Jan 19, 2021 Show Guest: David M. Habben

January 19, 2021 show: On this episode of Tombstone Tuesday, I will interview cemetery historian, David M. Habben.

David has been documenting, photographing, and researching cemeteries and graveyards for nearly 20 years.  His interest began when visiting the graves of blues musicians in Chicago, where he grew up.

His work as a paramedic in Emergency Medical instruction and consulting has taken him all over the world where he has visited hundreds of cemeteries and taken thousands of photographs.

David has previous experience in law enforcement prior to his EMS work, and works part-time for a local funeral home.  He has, and continues, to study the history of cemeteries and the symbols and emblems on grave stones which our ancestors used to relate information to those who could not read. 

His classes, “Carved in Stone” and “Who Lies Beneath?” have been presented through Boise Community Education during each quarter for several years, at numerous genealogy and family history conferences and paranormal and ghost conferences throughout the country. 

David grew up in the Chicago area, lived and worked in Oregon, and now lives in Boise, Idaho.

What are your questions for David M. Habben?

What would you like me to ask David M. Habben? If you are reading this prior to the show date, feel free to leave any questions you may have as a comment below and I’ll do my best to work them into the show!

Cemetery Teatime photo (c) Kenneth Reed

Cemetery Photos of the Week

Featured historic cemetery photos: As part of each Tombstone Tuesday show, I will share photos that my newsletter readers have sent me. (Replying to my newsletter is the absolute best way to reach me, just so you know!)

This week’s photos: On the January 19, 2020 show I will be featuring taken by newsletter reader, Kenneth Reed. Not only do Kenneth and his friends have an annual tea party in a historic cemetery, but he creates wonderful oldtime-looking photos such as the one above!

Want YOUR photos featured on the show?

Want YOUR cemetery photos featured? If you have interesting photos related to the topic of historic cemeteries, I’d love to feature them on Tombstone Tuesdays. Or maybe you have a research tip, or a photo that you think viewers will enjoy.

Here’s how: Sign up for my weekly Sunday newsletter, if you are not already subscribed. Then, hit reply any of the newsletters or even the welcome aboard email.

Guest ideas?

If there are specific guests or topics you would like to see on Tombstone Tuesdays, please tell me in a comment on this blog post. Thanks so much!

READ MY BOOKS: To see a list of all my published books, check out Tui  Snider’s Amazon page. 

Learn more about offbeat travel & historic cemeteries at my YouTube Channel

Want a FREE book? Click below:

Gotta love Facebook

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I’m not much of a beer drinker, but this ad made me laugh. They had another one a couple months ago which read, Beer: Because it’s election season again. Hard to argue with that, no matter what your politics are!

This ad could save you years of therapy. Photo by Tui Cameron
This ad could save you years of therapy. Photo by Tui Cameron

In my opinion, Belgians make the best beer in the world, specifically Belgian monks. I’m not a big Stella Artois or Hoegaarden fan, but when it comes to Belgian trappist ales, I must say – yum. To my palate, that’s what beer is all about!

But enough about beer, what do I really want to talk about? I am not sure, and I am running out of time to post. In a few minutes, I’m meeting a friend I have not seen in over 10 years! Life’s pachinko ball randomness tossed us both in the same tiny Texas town, and we just found out, via Facebook, no less. We were in such different places – geographically and otherwise – in our lives the last time we saw each other. I was married and running a coffeehouse… Now, she is married and just had a baby!

Sadly, she is moving in a couple of weeks! Even so, if it weren’t for Facebook, we would never have made today’s connection. Pretty cool, eh? Have you found any long lost pals via the interwebs?