The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
This week, Latino USA shares an episode of The\xa0Unmarked\xa0Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island podcast.
\n\nWhen Annette Vega was in elementary school, she found out the man she called \u201cdad\u201d wasn\u2019t her biological father.\xa0But all she knew was that her mom had had a teenage romance with a guy named Angel Garcia. Annette has\xa0searched for Angel for more than 30 years, a search that is finally coming to the end.
\n\n\u201cThe\xa0Unmarked\xa0Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island" is a new series from\xa0Radio\xa0Diaries\xa0that\xa0tells the stories of seven people buried on Hart Island through a range\xa0of circumstances.\xa0Hart Island, an uninhabited strip of land off the Bronx\xa0is America's largest public\xa0cemetery, sometimes known as a\xa0"potter's field." Since 1869, more than a million people have been buried on Hart\xa0Island, including early AIDS patients, unidentified and unclaimed New Yorkers,\xa0immigrants, incarcerated people, artists, and about ten percent of New Yorkers\xa0who died of COVID-19.
\n\nYou can hear the entire series on the Radio Diaries podcast here.