Saturday, April 22 at 10 & 10:30pm on MPT
10pm: Laurel Hill Cemetery
Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at historic Laurel Hill and bucolic West Laurel Hill cemeteries near Philadelphia. Laurel Hill is America’s second major rural garden cemetery, on bluffs overlooking the scenic Schuylkill river. We explore the famed Medallion Garden. Interments include jazz saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr., Civil War General George Meade, and inventor Martha Coston.
10:30pm: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY
Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty and tour a National Historic Landmark. New York’s Woodlawn Cemetery is the final resting place of legends — Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, Bat Masterson, Celia Cruz, Dorothy Parker, Miles Davis, Jokichi Takamine and Irving Berlin. Gilded age monuments, towering mausoleums, modern sculptures and exquisite landscaping grace this tree-lined urban oasis.
About the program
While you might not suspect it, many cemeteries are masterpieces of landscape, culture, and history. So much more than burial spaces, they are monuments to stories that tell us who we were, why we are here, and what we can be. WORLD'S GREATEST CEMETERIES highlights these hidden gems in a magazine-style half-hour that uses actors, forensic scientists, historians, and even horticulturists to share true stories of romance, war, espionage, and intrigue.