The Taphophile Diaries Episode 14 - The Girl in the Shadow Box

Imagine your husband falls in love with another woman in Italy. He proposes, but she turns him down. He longs for her so much that he commissions a statue to be built in her likeness, and he uses it as his very own headstone... 

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This podcast is produced, researched, hosted, and edited by Ivy Boyd. Music is by Dmitry Taras and UNIVERSFIELD from Pixabay.

Sources used for this episode:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-girl-in-the-shadow-box
https://bellefontainecemetery.org/2021/09/28/herman-luyties/
https://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/oct-14-1921-statue-of-grief-for-grave-in-predicament-luyties-statue-nearly-placed-at/article_68497474-5408-11ee-807f-737e0e2e61f1.html
https://accessgenealogy.com/missouri/biography-of-dr-herman-c-g-luyties.htm#google_vignette 
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3100/herman-carl_georg-luyties
https://missourigravestones.org/view.php?id=742279 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Monteverde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monteverde_Angel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Mora