Summer Author Series
Kurt Deion: Presidential Grave Hunter – One Kid’s Quest to Visit the Tombs of Every President and Vice President.
Kurt Deion started visiting gravesites when he was 8 years old, and in the 19 years since then he has seen over 1,200 interment sites listed as “famous” on the database Find a Grave. Kurt has a Master’s Degree in History, and he maintains a website, Kurt’s Historic Sites, where he documents his travels and provides historical information. In 2015 Kurt was interviewed by C-SPAN network founder Brian Lamb on the C-SPAN television show “Q&A”.
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About the Book
In 2003, nine-year-old presidential enthusiast Kurt Deion presented his father with an audacious request: would he help him follow in the footsteps of historian Richard Norton Smith and C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb by taking him to visit the final resting place of each deceased U.S. President? He got all he asked for and more.
Deion reconstructs his decade-long, cross-country quest and analyzes the evolution of his perspective on the commanders-in-chief and what it means to visit a cemetery.
About the Author
Kurt Deion is a public historian, author, guest speaker, and presidential expert for RoadsideAmerica.com. He holds an M.A. in history. At age 14, he launched kurtshistoricsites.com as a means to both document his travels and encourage others to visit gravesites and engage in hands-on history. His website and his cemetery pilgrimages were the subject of a 2015 interview on the C-SPAN show Q&A.