BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Rhythmic tap-tap-tapping fills the room as Casey Winningham chisels into a slab of limestone. The sound is more metallic than you might expect. A moment before, Winningham ...
Robert McCallum, a military veteran, has made grave markers for 18 years. Sometimes he makes headstones for people who lived full lives. Others never reached their 21st birthday. Robert McCallum, a ...
Rhythmic tap-tap-tapping fills the room as Casey Winningham chisels into a slab of limestone. The sound is more metallic than you might expect. A moment before, Winningham replaced wire-rimmed ...
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 ...
LONDON — A 1,000-year-old stone carving that spent years marking the grave of a couple’s pet cat was sold at auction Friday for more than $380,000. The limestone carving of St. Peter was sold by Ruth ...
The owner of Merseyside's oldest memorials business is passing the torch after more than 40 years of painstakingly carving hundreds of headstones, which will stand in the county's cemeteries for ...
Stone workers in Nashville, Tennessee made frequent deliveries to the house of William Edmondson (1874-1951). Those from the nearby quarry brought him oddly shaped stones that were unusable to ...