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Green Mountain Funeral Alternatives 08/27/2024

Avery Lavoie interviews Roxbury Forest Cemetery founder Michelle Acciavatti about Vermont's first forest cemetery and natural burial options. They broaden awareness and access to natural burial.

From Vermont Forest Cemetery and Green Mountain Funeral Alternatives:

Vermont Forest Cemetery is a 501c13 non-profit cemetery which opened in October of 2023. Our mission includes five branches- burial, conservation, arts, learning & community- to help people connect meaningfully with the forest that they choose to sustain with their bodies when they die. Thanks to our volunteers we have developed trails and assisted over 14 families with burials. If you’d like to learn more about volunteering with Vermont Forest Cemetery please visit our website www.cemetery.eco/about and scroll to the bottom of the page!

Michelle Hogle Acciavatti is a natural deathcare worker and the founder of Vermont Forest Cemetery the first natural burial ground in Vermont. She is a licensed funeral director, death doula, pregnancy loss guide, home funeral guide, end of life specialist and natural burial educator. In 2016, she created Green Mountain Funeral Alternatives to help people preparing for the end of life, designing funeral services, caring for their own dead, and exploring natural burial options. Michelle has practiced death work with people of all ages, including death during pregnancy. Her work has found her in settings as varied as the forest, Boston Children’s Hospital, and people’s own living rooms as well as the traditional funeral home. 

For more information visit: www.cemetery.eco | www.memorial.eco

Reinterment Ceremony for War of 1812 Soldiers 06/04/2022

From Preservation Burlington:

During the War of 1812, Burlington was used as a supply depot, campground, and major hospital site by the United States Army. Research shows that the military owned property in what is now the Old North End of Burlington between North Street and Pearl Street including Battery Park. The area was referred to as "Camp Burlington" and housed approximately 3,000 to 4,500 troops at various times between 1812 and 1815.

As a result of road construction along North Street by VTrans between 2002 and 2005, the remains of 20+ soldiers were excavated. In 2020, a housing construction project on Elmwood Avenue uncovered another 17 graves; 7 of the remains were excavated. An estimated 500 soldiers are believed to have been buried in Burlington between 1812 and 1815, and military records indicate that more than 550 soldiers died in Burlington. A columbarium and headstone have been placed by the City of Burlington in Lakeview Cemetery as the final resting place for the 30 exhumed soldiers.

The Army National Guard's Honor Guard perform the military funerary ceremony and the Agency of Commerce and Community Development Secretary Lindsay Kurrle accepts the flag on behalf of Vermonters.

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