Kim Roberts Meikle — The District's Departed: A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries - with Laura Brower Hagood

Kim Roberts Meikle presents *The District’s Departed*, a guide to eleven well-known and lesser-known cemeteries in and around Washington, DC. The book offers walking tours that explore each cemetery’s landscape, community history, period of establishment, architecture, and memorial traditions, while considering how burial practices reflect the nation’s histories of race, class, religion, and military service.

Meikle will discuss the book with Laura Brower Hagood, executive director of the DC History Center. Featured sites include Arlington National Cemetery, historically Black cemeteries such as Mt. Zion Methodist, and cemeteries renowned for their funerary art, including Oak Hill and Rock Creek. The tours invite readers to consider what the living can learn from places of remembrance.

When: Saturday, October 31, 2026

Showtime: 3:00pm

Venue: Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tickets: Free admission

Seating: First come, first served

Featured book: *The District’s Departed: A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries* by Kim Roberts Meikle

Book price: The paperback is listed at $29.95

Presenter: Kim Roberts Meikle, a Washington-based freelance literary historian, writer, and editor, and author of *A Literary Guide to Washington, DC*

Conversation partner: Laura Brower Hagood, executive director of the DC History Center. She has 25 years of experience as a nonprofit leader and cultural entrepreneur, previously served as vice president of development at the National Building Museum, and joined the DC History Center in April 2020.

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