Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Island of Lost Souls: Heartbreaking truth behind New York cemetery and one woman's journey to pay her respects to her dead daughter


 Forbidden: Access to Hart Island and its decaying abandoned prison workhouse is severely restricted. Each white plastic pipe near the building marks an infant mass gravesite, one plastic pipe per 1,000 babies



  • Hart Island is final resting place for a million still-born babies and paupers
  • Access restricted, photos banned and burials performed by prison inmates
  • After a 36-year wait, Elaine Joseph became one of first eight women to visit
  • Her daughter Tomika was born two months prematurely and died in 1978
  • Mass graveyard began in 1869 and 1,500 fresh bodies arrive each year

    • READ MORE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2616584/The-Island-Lost-Souls-Heartbreaking-truth-cemetery-coast-New-York-one-womans-journey-pay-respects-dead-daughter.html
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