Silent Storytellers
2010 · 78m · Documentary
Archaeologists, preservationists and everyday people are mapping and cataloging cemeteries in Arkansas. They are piecing together the fragments of broken and damaged markers and memorials and in the process are uncovering more information than they thought they would find.
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