Episode 89 is available for download.
(01:06:35 minutes, 19.3MB, MP3)
Independent researcher Abby Burnett discusses the ways in which Ozark folks helped one another when there was a death, including the role in the community in nursing the sick, laying out the body, building the casket, sitting up with the body, digging the grave, and holding the burial.
Burnett was recently featured in Silent Storytellers, a documentary produced by the Arkansas Educational Television Network about the history and culture of Arkansas cemeteries. Recorded May 19, 2010.
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