The Taphophile Diaries Episode 14 - The Girl in the Shadow Box
Aug 20, 11:00 AM
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
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ghostnightmedia
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