City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

"...I see you standing on the other side...."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

New Findings Shed Light on Oakwood Chapel Burials

Remains at city's oldest cemetery were exhumed, studied, and now await reinterment

"...even Asian, and some whose race cannot be known. One may have held a crucifix. That's some of what..."

May 22, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Decision Reached on Fate of Oakwood Cemetery's Unidentified Graves

City will exhume and re-inter 25 bodies discovered in former "colored grounds"

"...The city's Parks and Recreation Department reached a final decision regarding..."

May 26, 2017 News Feature by Montinique Monroe

Decisions Await for the Fate of Oakwood Chapel

Is moving graves from under the chapel adding insult to injury?

"...Austin’s segregated past pervades within the city’s Oakwood Cemetery. Built in 1839, the cemetery spans 40..."

April 13, 2017 News Post by Montinique Monroe

Cemetery Master Plan Inches Closer to Life

Boards & commissions pass graveyard draft

"...Austin's cemeteries are one step closer to securing their future, as the city's..."

July 3, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

More Cemetery Stories

"...Dear Editor, I greatly enjoyed Cheryl Smith's article on Oakwood Cemetery and those who seek to foster its..."

April 26, 2006 Postmarks

The City Needs Gravediggers, Too

PARD's long, hot summer with interment services

"...Austin faces a very real possibility of not having anyone to manage interments at its public cemeteries by the..."

Aug. 24, 2018 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Your City at Work

Planning, talking, digging, housing, walking

"...The highlight of today's City Council meeting (postponed from after midnight at the last..."

March 24, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Quote of the Week: "We decide only the legality of Plan 1374C, not its wisdom. ......"

Jan. 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

"...Say No to GMOs will sponsor "Genetically Engineered Seeds of Controversy," a lecture on the..."

Oct. 5, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Council: No Zombies Before Midnight

City Council hears budget pleas, aids workers, tenants … & zombies

"...Thursday night’s City Council meeting adjourned at the rather remarkable hour of..."

Sept. 5, 2016 News Post by Michael King

Death Waits for No Plan

Austin works on making its cemeteries more accessible to the public

"...Two of the first men buried in an Austin cemetery – or so the story goes – were killed..."

Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

How to Celebrate Austin Museum Day 2020

In person and virtual events abound on the city' annual free museum day

"...the 23rd annual Austin Museum Day, citizen, that free celebration of art, culture, history, music, nature, and science –..."

Sept. 15, 2020 Arts Post

After 44 Years, Contentious Gravesite Decoration Rules May Change

Will new cemetery rules stick?

"...Austin hasn't updated its rules on how graves in the five city cemeteries can be..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Who Benefits From a Reconnected Austin?

"...The "value creation" touted as a benefit of the Reconnect Austin plan..."

Jan. 31, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Austin at Large: Reading the Palm District

A new plan-of-plans puts the spotlight on Downtown’s hard, rough eastern edges

"...run out of things to say about the 2022 elections: Anyone who can vote this year but doesn't deserves..."

Nov. 4, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Power of Art in Austin’s Overlooked Objects

Defining the city's personality from the moonlight towers to the railroad bridge

"...its people, objects, and places. Combined, they form our city's personality, its genius and fragility, its power and swerve...."

Aug. 5, 2016 Arts Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Shut Out Again

"...article "Death Waits for No Plan" [News, Feb. 6] on the draft of the Austin Cemetery Master Plan, which..."

Feb. 11, 2015 Postmarks

The Five Austin Public Cemeteries

"...Oakwood..."

Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature

Grave Matters

The Cost of the Longest Vacation You'll Ever Take

"...For example, a high-dollar undeveloped lot on Island Cove, a scenic drive overlooking Lake Austin, is..."

March 28, 1997 News Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

Downtown Puzzle: HOT History

Projects under consideration for the historic preservation “funding bucket”

"...Another aspect of the Downtown Puzzle specifically targets "historic preservation," e.g., historic sites or potential tourist destinations, both broadly..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Grave Importance

Meiling Guentzel explores her fascination with small local graveyards and death and learns about life in the process.

"..."Try it," she taunted. "It won't work."..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Features Feature by Meiling Guentzel

Let's Make a Deal

Chronicle's Guy-in-the-Hood Vents (Just This Once)

"...Baby's second birth- day is never as exciting as its first...."

Oct. 4, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

PARD's Peeved Constituents

"...Dear Chronicle, You can add one more group to Austin Parks..."

Jan. 2, 2013 Postmarks

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...masks at public schools, including colleges, as well as city and county properties. Read more...."

Aug. 20, 2021 News Feature

Day Trips & Beyond: October Events Roundup

Chinati Weekend in Marfa, Lantern Fest in Paige, and lots more!

"...Artist Donald Judd arrived in Marfa in 1973 and made lasting..."

Oct. 5, 2016 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Developing Stories: The Long Capitol View

The Downtown Commission and Heritage Society of Austin square off over Capitol-view corridors

"...was intended to prevail over other structures, as community responsibilities were to dominate private concerns. ... Dramatically situated, 311..."

June 1, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Austin Ghost Tours

"...It's a warm, fall afternoon in Oakwood Cemetery. Jeanine Plumer is walking through a..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Features Feature by Eli Kooris

Slum, Sweet Slum?

An Annual Look at My Own Backyard

"...illustration by Doug Potter It's birthday time again. "Corner to..."

Oct. 24, 1997 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

2006 Political Procrastinators' Holiday Gift Guide

Some of these ideas might even be real

"...Brewster's Barometer Shifting political winds? Storm clouds gathering over City Hall? No matter the forecast, Austin power players shouldn't..."

Dec. 22, 2006 News Feature

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