Volunteers are needed to help preserve a beautiful outdoor museum of Granville history. Volunteers will clean and straighten headstones in the Old Colony Burying Ground, located on South Main Street, ...

Warren Stirling stood in front of his family’s gravestones on Saturday, June 29, staring down at his great-great grandfather’s marker. Frederick J. Woodbury, or Captain Fred, was one of the founders ...

ALTADENA – Altadena’s “Good Cemeterians” will host a special session Saturday, June 29, to celebrate cleaning their 1,000th headstone. The public event, held at Mountain View Cemetery, will consist of ...

During the Victorian era, it wasn’t uncommon to take a leisurely Sunday stroll through your local garden cemetery—perhaps stopping for a picnic lunch. But for the most part (with a few exceptions, ...

The sun has just risen over the mountains surrounding Maple Hill Cemetery in Dorset, Vermont, giving the headstones here a kind of warmth that only comes in late fall. Some of these graves date back ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — The Memorial Day holiday is to honor those who fought, served, and died in service to our country. At Oakwood Cemetery in Cuyahoga Falls, the 370-plus headstones in the veterans ...

PHILADELPHIA — With brushes and towels in hand, along with a special environmental cleaning agent and plenty of gallons of water in tote, students from Greenfield-Central High School’s LEAP program ...

Gesturing to the assortment of aged headstones in the historic Oak Grove Cemetery, preservationist Perky Beisel pointed out that most are made of marble. And marble, she told the group that showed up ...

The Hunterdon County Board of Commissioners hosted a veteran headstone cleaning event on Saturday, Oct. 23, with Trae Zipperer, Navy veteran and founder of the nonprofit group, By Memorial Day.

The 1866 marble monument in Granville’s Old Colony Burying Ground, shown in "before-and-after” shots, was cleaned in 2022 by volunteer Tasia Savage. It marks the grave of Benjamin Linnell, a member of ...