About \;Buried San Francisco Bay Area: \;
\nWith the exception of the churchyard behind Mission Dolores and the National Cemetery in the Presidio\, all of San Fra ncisco&rsquo\;s gorgeous Victorian-era cemeteries were evicted from the ci ty in the early 1930s and relocated to Colma\, a planned city of the dead just below Daly City where the dead outnumber the living 1\,000 to 1.
\ nThe process of moving hundreds of thousands of graves to Colma wasn&rs quo\;t an easy one\, and as history has shown\, it wasn&rsquo\;t even comp lete. Constant development and renovations in San Francisco have revealed that many of the city&rsquo\;s dead never made it to their new resting pla ce\, raising questions about the role that cemeteries play in our lives an d what we owe to the dead.
\nThe story of San Francisco is one of ra pid development\, for the living&mdash\;a very specific segment of the liv ing. A city without the dead\, or any memorial to them\, is a place withou t history. It is the story of the Bay Area.
\nAbout Jessica Ferri:
\nJessica Ferri is a writer and photographer based in Northern California. She is the aut hor of Silent Cities New York\, Silent Cities San Francisco\, Buried Holly woodland: The Cemeteries of Los Angeles and Buried San Francisco Bay Area: The Fallen Star.
\nShe is the founder of the feminist bookshop and imprint Womb House Books.
\nAbout Lauren Markham:
\nLauren Markham is the author of the aw ard-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life\, A Map of Future Ruins\, and Immemorial. Her work has appe ared in VQR\, Harper's\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Guardian\, The New York Review of Books\, and other publications. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and in the Ashland University MFA in Writi ng Program.
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