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Save the date! This fall we have so many fun things in the works. We can't wait to share all the details soon!

2/3 and another in the cathedral, this time a bat, and why not?

Sexton’s Cottage and front garden at Union Cemetery, the cottage is painted white with green shutters.

Sexton’s Cottage
Union Cemetery est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri
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In our partnership with BeeKC we are having our first honey harvest on Sunday September 7th 10am-12pm! BeeKC will be joining us to show how honey is harvested directly from hives here in the cemetery. This is a free family event! Jars will be available for purchase to take honey home that day.

Red granite column shaped monument in an old cemetery with a red broadcast tower standing tall against a blue sky.

Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image3
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An old cemetery with a red broadcast tower rising at a distance.

Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image 2
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Old marble gravestone with a draped urn sculpture on top. And a red broadcast tower standing tall against a blue sky.

Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image 1
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A tiny gold coffin pendant. The opened lid reveals a tiny skeleton lying within. The coffin is decorated with nails and has three handles on each side.

It’s a coffin! A fine way to grab a death historian’s interest. This coffin pendant is a quite a bit smaller and its pop-out inhabitant is not faithful or a traitor but a memento mori skeleton. #thetraitors

A small wooden coffin with a wooden corpse inside.

Carved from wood, this 16th-century figure shows a corpse inside a coffin. The body is decaying and worms are spilling from the stomach. The coffin is a memento mori, an object that reminds the viewer of the shortness of human life & the inevitability of death.

A red fox running with old tombstones in the background.

Another picture of the red fox at Union Cemetery.
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A red fox running through a cemetery

A red fox in a cemetery

A red fox at Union Cemetery in Kansas City. Morning of Aug. 22
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I think they did a good job sealing the entrance with stonework. It looks very good, but the old bronze doors were beautiful.

Old stone mausoleum with bronze doors.

An old stone mausoleum with stone masonry added in place of the missing bronze doors.

Earlier this year I took the first picture of this mausoleum. Recently I took the second picture. I remember reading about the bronze doors being stolen, soon after my first visit. Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri

A large cemetery monument of a seated female figure. Green grass and trees on each side, with a blue sky above.

Elmwood Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri

Yes, it's been awhile. I plan to start posting more pictures soon.😀

marble carving of skull with missing teeth in a shroud

Death puts on a happy face for #MementoMoriMonday.

Marble shrouded skull with hourglass, 18th c.
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Tall cemetery monument topped with a sculpture of a standing female.

Elmwood Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri

Tomorrow is the day! We have a few tickets remaining and @thecleverbatlfk is ready to show us how to make our very own cemetery keepsakes using UV resin and fresh pressed flowers from our pollinator gardens. 🌷🌻

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Yes, there are 6 beehives.

Old cemetery with old headstones and there are 6 beehives, disguised as headstones in the back area, along the fence.

Can you spot the beehives? They may be in disguise. How many do you see in this picture?

Old hillside mausoleum vault with vines growing on the entry gate.

Hillside mausoleum vault
Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, MO
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In preparation for August being super hot outside we've partnered with local artists to bring a month of DIY crafts indoors! August 9th we're joined by Aimee Omohundro for a UV Resin Class. Then August 23rd Kelly Aaron will be here for a Mini Headstone Making Class. Links in the comments

Two images of the same ring. On the left it shows a coffin-shaped ornament on the gold and black ring. On the right it shows a gold skeleton engraved into the ring's band.

Memento mori ring moulded with a skeleton and coffin-shaped bezel containing another tiny skeleton, c.1727. #MementoMoriMonday

Whoops! That moment when you forget to post a draft until two days later: from July 4th.
Rebecca Littler Metcalf was born the same day the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Research has found her headstone was engraved incorrectly adding an "e" to the end of her last name.
She died in 1861.

I attended this class in June. It was fun and informative.

Come explore your artistic side with us in the latest installment of Nature Speaks! 🖼️

🌱 Nature Speaks...Through Creating Art | June 26 from 6–8 p.m.

Learn more: buff.ly/buuUb2v

📸 Mary Lou Olson

#MOBOTGarden

Andry José Hernández Romero

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 95 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Checked on our happy bees and gardens after the rains.🐝🌼 They're thriving!