Families, missionaries, young adults, youth groups and others are spending time in cemeteries, going from row to row and photographing each gravestone after signing up through JustServe.org. In the ...

*Well chances are it’s not a topic families sit around talking about: What ours or a family members’ gravestone will look like. At least not African American families. And if we absolutely must speak ...

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While over at the National Cemetery visiting the grave of my late mother, Velma Shearer, Monday afternoon and photographing it with a flag and a floral arrangement in front of it, I began to notice ...

The histories of the Jews of Europe can often best be gleaned not from monographs, museums, or synagogues, but from cemeteries. The details of the matzevot, or tombstones — the size and shape, ...

Death is not always as grim as it seems. At least not in Sapanta. That’s because bodies laid to rest in this Romanian town get another chance to tell their tales. The gravestones in Sapanta’s ...

ACUSHNET — For many local history lovers, there’s nothing more enjoyable than walking around an old burial ground on a pleasant spring or summer day, looking for clues about the lives and times of the ...

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Photos of revelers slurping back beverages by gravestones during a beer festival fund-raiser for a centuries-old church in England has triggered an apology from event organizers. St. Mary’s Norton ...

Boni Perks Edwards, a local land surveyor, is the Brown Bag series speaker at noon on Thursday at the North Platte Public Library. Her program is titled “Cemetery Tree Stones,” and is free to the ...

This is an AP-Illinois Exchange story offered by the Journal Gazette & Times-Courier. ASHMORE, Ill. (AP) — For Fairel Smith, having a picture of his mother and stepfather enshrined on their gravestone ...

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