Story Talks with the Amazing Ruth Miller

On September 16, 2019 the amazing Ruth Miller visited my Beyond the Grave class! Miller is known as a public historian and storyteller. Sharing her discoveries as a tour guide and public speaker, Miller is a certified tour guide for the City of Charleston. She wrote about 7 to 8 books and she mentions that “Winners write history books.” You can find some of her books here on her website and to learn more about her as well as what she does around the city of Charleston.

While Miller talked to my class, I learned and discovered many different things about the city of Charleston that I would have never even imagined here. Hearing about and learning about the different graves and historical events that took place here in Charleston is beyond measures.

One thing that really stuck out to me that Miller mentioned was that “Charleston is the richest city in Colonial America”. Hundreds of people a day come to the city of Charleston for tours around the city. They get a chance to learn about the many different historical events that happened here and see many amazing historic markers around the city.

Here I am with the fabulous Ruth Miller. My wrist band stuck out
to her as it said "Long Live Keeron" who was a good friend of mine who
passed away in a car accident. She said back in the day, they did things
such as have memorial wrist bands also but in a different form.
She is also holding a  wrist band of sort in the memory of someone else.

Being that we learn about graveyards and cemeteries in my Beyond the Grave class. She talked mostly about the different tombstones and what they meant and the reason why some of the cemeteries were they way that they are. She stated that “only the rich people had tombstones” and she also mentioned that “what you see in a graveyard is just as important as what you don’t see in a graveyard.” The reason we have so many graveyards is because of freedom of religion.

In the city of Charleston, and even all over, bodies are everywhere and we’re walking on them. Miller taught us a lot in just one class session. Being able to have her present within the classroom meant a lot and we were very thankful to have her and for her to give us such insight on the things that happened in the world we’re living in today!