For more information about grave robbing and more:

Join Tompkins-McCaw Library's Jodi Koste for a lecture on Grave Robbing, 
Goblins, and Ghouls: Anatomical Education in 19th Century Richmond on 
Thursday, October 28 from 4 to 5 p.m. in Sanger Hall, Room 4-026. 
Anatomical instruction has been integral to medical education for 
centuries. Discover how anatomy was taught in Richmond during the 19th 
century and why students and faculty were involved in procuring cadavers 
for this important educational experience.

A brief walking tour of the MCV Campus highlighting stories about grave 
robbing, goblins, and ghouls will follow the presentation.

Seating is limited; advanced registration is encouraged.

Visit this site to register:

http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2010/10/grave-robbing-goblins-and-ghou.html 


On 10/27/2010 9:01 AM, Dale Dulaney wrote:
> In 1893 a Richmond newspaper described him as a “jolly little ghoul.” Chris
> Baker was a respected “anatomical man” in the white community, procuring
> cadavers by extralegal means for the dissection room at the Medical College of
> Virginia. In the city’s African American community he was reviled and is still
> present in living memory. Local Records Senior Archivist Vince Brooks brings to
> light the story of Richmond’s “resurrectionist” Chris Baker in this week’s
> Halloween edition of the Out of the Box blog from the archivists at the Library
> of Virginia.
>
> http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/
>
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Ray Bonis
Special Collections and Archives
James Branch Cabell Library
VCU Libraries
804-828-1108




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