A Cemetery Special is a 2005 PBS television documentary film by Rick Sebak of WQED. The documentary profiles cemeteries and cemetery-related businesses and events across the United States.
The following cemeteries are covered in the film:
- Allegheny Cemetery — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Mount Auburn Cemetery — Greater Boston, Massachusetts
- Rock of Ages Corporation — Graniteville, Vermont (Barre, Vermont)
- Hope Cemetery — Barre, Vermont
- Cypress Lawn Memorial Park — Colma, California
- Key West Cemetery — Key West, Florida
- Memorial Day — Waterloo, New York
- Lake View Cemetery — Cleveland, Ohio
- Oakland Cemetery — Atlanta, Georgia
- Birch Hill Cemetery — Fairbanks, Alaska
Famous quotes containing the words cemetery and/or special:
“I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)