The Unmarked Graveyard: Angel Garcia

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

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Summary

When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called "dad" wasn't her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had had a teenage romance with a guy named Angel Garcia. Annette has searched for Angel for more than 30 years. That search is coming to the end.

"The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island" is a new series from Radio Diaries that tells the stories of seven people buried on Hart Island through a range of circumstances. Hart Island, an uninhabited strip of land off the Bronx in Long Island Sound, is America's largest public cemetery, sometimes known as a "potter's field." Since 1869, more than a million people have been buried on Hart Island, including early AIDS patients, unidentified and unclaimed New Yorkers, immigrants, incarcerated people, artists, and about ten percent of New Yorkers who died of COVID-19.

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0:16.6	Hey, I'm Kelli McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR.
0:21.0	This week we're sharing another episode from the Unmarked Graveyard.
0:25.8	It's a new series by radio diaries, which tells the stories of people who were buried
0:31.4	in heart island, the largest potters field in America.
0:36.4	The series uncovers who these up until now unknown people were when they were alive by finding
0:42.9	people who knew them and letting them tell their stories.
0:46.7	Last week we heard about a young man who spent most of his time sitting on a bench in Manhattan.
0:51.9	If you haven't listened to that episode, go and check it out.
0:54.5	It's called the Unmarked Graveyard, Neil Harris, Jr.
1:00.0	This week we have another episode from the series.
1:02.4	It's about a woman's decades-long search for her biological father, a search that takes
1:08.2	her to heart island.
1:10.4	Here it is, the Unmarked Graveyard.
1:17.5	From radio diaries, I'm Joe Richmond, and this is the Unmarked Graveyard, a series
1:22.2	untangling mysteries from America's largest public cemetery.
1:26.1	Neil Harris was last seen in Inwood, New York on December 12, 2014.
1:30.5	Uncle Caesar was estranged from our family for 40 to 50 years.
1:34.6	They play right, novelist and author of Happy Island, Miss Dawn Powell.
1:39.8	You can't help but wonder what her life has been.
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