Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality And 21st Century Archaeology

The Hart Island Project is a public charity that assists family in locating people who disappear onto Hart Island. Toward that end, we host an on-line database of burials since 1980 in an on-line museum called the Traveling Cloud Museum.The museum has interactive features assigning each person buried a clock of anonymity that can be stopped by a visitor who adds a story, photo, link or epitaph. Each person’s profile lists a plot that takes the visitor to a map of the island and displays where that person is buried. The week of July 6th, a class action lawsuit was settled permitting families to visit grave sites. The Hart Island project is hoping to get New York City to rethink the burial process and develop a landscape plan for Hart Island to become a public park. Burials on Hart Island are natural burials where human remains decompose within 25 years returning nutrients to the land. - Melinda Hunt https://www.hartisland.net/about