Macabre Pittsfield: City of the Dead

Opened in 1850 as the city outgrew its downtown burying grounds, Pittsfield Cemetery was originally designed by Dr Horatio Stone. It holds the remains of nearly 30,000 dead across over 80 acres.

Ignoring the official website tour, “City of the Dead” will explore fascinating and tragic stories from some of the less-well-known residents. It will also lay bare the darker history of the place itself: the vandalism, assaults, exhumations, reinterments, murders and suicides that have taken place in this peaceful park of monuments…