Category: no.2

• Letter from the Editor

  The Woodlands Magazine is alive and well. 

• The Woodlands Magazine on The Woodlands Cemetery

  

  Editors Armie Chardiet and Mira Sydow had the pleasure of interviewing the director of The Woodlands Cemetery, Jessica Baumert where we discussed memory, life, and the world of the cemetery which inspired the name of this magazine.

• Friends of the Dead

  

  Keeping the Grateful Dead alive in music and in memory.

• Guinea Pig Elegy in Three Movements

  

  For the St. Vincent orphans, Little Buddies Rescue, and Gustavo

• Ode to Collective Memory

  

  Japanese American Identity, the Philadelphia Hostel, and Intergenerational Storytelling

• Understanding Blame

  

  The story of a chemical plant explosion on the coast of Texas in 2005 is not relevant anymore—except to those who remember.

• Dead to Me

  

  My biological father left me before I was born. I brought him back to life to hurt me, one last time.

• A Day in the Life of Paul is Dead

  

  An American arrives at the birthplace of The Beatles to look beyond the theory that “Paul is Dead”

• Shadow Blocks on the Ghost App

  

  What happens when an app gives a name to a neighborhood that never existed in the first place?

• Playing Apocalypse

  

  Head-first into Humans vs. Zombies, the live-action zombie apocalypse where you fight for your life—with Nerf guns.