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Dead and Buried: Historian Digs Up Southland's Graveyard Tales

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Lloyd Esler has spent 25 years digging through Southland's graveyards and emerged with 150 stories of murder, mishap and the occasional elephant.The historian and former Invercargill city councillor has turned his cemetery tours and 1200 newspaper columns into Dead and Buried in Southland — a collection that reads like regional history written by someone with a dark sense of humour."People are fascinated by cemeteries," Esler said. "Often the in…
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What's On Invers broke the news on Monday, May 25, 2026.
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