San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History [Paperback]

Digging into a forgotten past  and the dead left behind.

San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isnt exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city relocated more than 150,000 graves to the nearby town of Colma to make way for a rapidly growing population. But an estimated fifty to sixty thousand burials were quietly built over and forgotten, only to resurface every time a new building project began. The dead still lie beneath some of the citys most cherished destinations, including the Legion of Honor, United Nations Plaza, the Asian Art Museum and the University of San Francisco.

Join author Beth Winegarner as she maps the city's early burial grounds and brings back to life the dead who've been erased.

Beth Winegarner is an author, journalist, essayist and pop culture critic whos contributed to theNew York Times, theNew Yorker, theGuardian, theWashington Post,Wired,Mother Jonesand many others. Her books includeSacred Sonoma,The Columbine Effect: How Five Teen Pastimes Got Caught in the CrossfireandWhy Teens Are Taking Them BackandTenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa. She grew up in Northern California and lives in San Francisco.

Digging into a forgotten pastand the dead left behind

What started as an?Alta Journal?story?has evolved into a full-length book. Winegarner traces the history of San Franciscos early cemeteries and exposes the more than 50,000 graves that have been unearthed or are still resting beneath the city.

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