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Where Quakers And Muslims Lie Together For Eternity

Graveyard Shift

How one traditional Quaker cemetery bounced back from the dead by opening itself up to interfaith burials.

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Lucy Duncan

Business at the Quaker bookstore near Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where Jerimy Pedersen works has not been great in recent years, but things at the Quaker cemetery where he digs graves part time with his sometime bookstore colleague, cemetery manager Graham Garner, have gotten rather lively.

Just three years ago, Friends Southwestern Burial...

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