Emma Yorty, left, and Zoey Wright, seventh-graders at Beth-Center Middle School, start the time-consuming process of cleaning the gravestone of a veteran at Beallsville Cemetery. The students are ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Thanks to the efforts of a young woman from Mountain Top and a cadre of volunteers, headstones and ...
For the past two years, Bill Bray has been on a mission to restore abandoned cemeteries. Bray, 57, of Penn Township, has cleaned headstones covered in years of mold, moss and lichen and reset stones ...
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. — Every year for Memorial Day, the Rock Island National Cemetery honors veterans buried in its hallowed grounds by placing an American flag at their headstones. Part of the ...
If he wasn’t already hardworking enough as a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier, one Florida man spends his Sundays off cleaning veterans’ graves at local cemeteries. Clarence Hollowell of Jacksonville, ...
A nearly 100-year-old headstone that was revived as part of Christian County (Mo.) Library’s Uncovering History: Gravestone Cleaning program.Photo: Christian County (Mo.) Library During the pandemic, ...
PLANT CITY, Fla. — Norman Root made the long drive to Murphysboro, Tennessee, from his home in Michigan two years ago. He was bounded for Stones River National Cemetery to hear a man from Florida ...
Caitlin Abrams, 35, cleans gravestones near her home in Vermont during her spare time. A self-identifying taphophile, Abrams loves cemeteries and tracing genealogical records of the dead. Her ...
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