SPRINGFIELD – In the early 1700s, gravestones throughout New England were often adorned with an etching of a winged skull. But in this city, that symbol is missing from historic gravestones. “Part of ...
A TikToker has been on a mission to recreate a series of dishes she's discovered in a most unlikely place: from recipes carved into gravestones. There are myriad ways to remember and honor our ...
British archaeologists recently uncovered eerie medieval gravestones during a search around an ancient shipwreck. Bournemouth University announced the discovery in a press release on Friday. The ...
It's not news that digital forms of communication are replacing hand-written letters and diaries with text messages and Facebook entries. Even the ancient art of carving an epitaph on a gravestone is ...
THE LAST YEAR OF HIS LIFE. SO MANY MEMORIES PRESERVED, SERVED IN IMAGES. THIS. THIS IS MARINE CORPS PICTURE. JACK WAS VERY PROUD OF BEING A MARINE. EVEN MORE MEMORIES PRESERVED WITH WORDS. NEVER AGAIN ...
It is not every day that we are called upon to duplicate a marble headstone that has stood in a cemetery since the 1800s. To be entrusted with such a task is both humbling and profound. These ...
Before going up Millstone Hill the crowd waited in a field for darkness to fall. As the long summer day trailed on, they twirled colored ribbons and tossed devil sticks in the air, a jam band played, ...
SALEM — During the pandemic, Andrew Carr found himself drawn to the city’s old burying grounds. A lifelong Salem native, a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and an artist by trade, Carr was ...
Since many of us made stops at cemeteries over Memorial Day weekend, I decided to set aside my plans to write about the state of Republican politics in Tennessee and instead head out to the cemetery ...