Julie Jordan documents activity at Wester Promenade Cemetery in Portland.

At Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Bill True and Eugene Rand are the last true gravediggers who only dig graves by hand. True and Rand discuss their work, the time that goes into digging each grave, and being put out of work by technology.

Terry Goodhue walks around Evergreen Cemetery discussing his hobby of birding and speaking to the birds.

Reenactors play out important parts of local history at the Eastern Cemetery through the group Spirits Alive. Elizabeth Jenkins profiles the work done by storyteller Lynne Cullen for her tours.

Offering a way for individuals to have a natural and affordable burial, green cemeteries have allowed for the tradition of burials to change. Grace Mendenhall documents the work Chuck Lakin, Joe Watson, and Joyce Foley have done for funerals.

Intrigued by the concept of a cemetery that only conducts burials with biodegradable materials, Ellen Hills offered her summer property to be transformed into a graveyard. Leslie Koren speaks to Hills regarding her decision on the use of her land.

In collaboration of the historical society Spirits Alive and the acting group Acorn Productions, reenactors play out important parts of local history at the Eastern Cemetery. Christie Flemming documents the work done by researchers and actors to prepare for the performances.

Ronen Trincher documents the work of gravediggers.

For nearly five decades, Everard Hall has been digging graves in Down East Maine. Erin Birney documents Hall's desire to do things the old-fashioned way and his perfection of the craft.

A former patient at a mental institution called AMHI, Karen Evans recounts how people disappeared while she was there. Ursula Chodosh speaks to Evans about her experiences at the institution, and how she is trying to find a way to honor the people who died at AMHI.

In order to offer a practical way to bury loved ones, Cedar Brook Burial Ground greatly reduces the cost of an average funeral, causing people in Maine to rethink funeral traditions. Molly Jean Bennett investigates how this type of burial functions, and the radical topic of home funerals by speaking to two Mainers who buried a loved one on their own terms.