Jennifer Epstein Rudnick
Is He Really Buried There? Searching for the Graves of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence
What started out as a quirky hobby soon became an obsession. During a road trip with friends to Boston, in a cemetery with the graves of three signers of the Declaration, a project was born: Traveling to and photographing the graves of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. As the search continued, more questions arose. A number of Declaration signers were not interred in their original burial locations or perhaps in unmarked graves. Hear some of the unusual stories of signers who were moved from their original burial places and whether all 56 were found.
Jennifer Epstein Rudnick knew she wanted a career in history after being inspired by her fifth-grade teacher. She grew up in northwestern Connecticut and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Gettysburg College. She has worked for the National Park Service at several sites, and for more than 25 years, has been on the National Mall in Washington, DC, hoping to inspire the next generation of historians like her teacher did for her. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and enjoys reading, traveling, baseball, and spending time with her niece and nephew.
