Before she became one of America’s most-decorated Special Olympics athletes, before the made-for-TV movie and the shared stages with actor Denzel Washington and Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack ...

A retired nurse from Upstate New York now cleans forgotten headstones and researches the lives of those buried beneath them, ...

The roots of John Knox’s despondence are lost to history. But his suicide made the newspaper: In 1895, he tied one end of a rope around his neck and the other around a stone block. Then he threw ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 28—Armed with industrial spray bottles, a variety of scrapers and scrub brushes, a group of history lovers cleans off older ...

The Nathan Perry Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution has embarked on a historic preservation initiative to restore or replace headstones belonging to Revolutionary War ...

The headstone of Luzine Wildersen is pictured before (left) and after it was cleaned as part of a conservation project at Oak Hill Cemetery, 1605 Oak Hill Ave. Before lichens and other biological ...

One of the scariest things Archaeology and Collections Branch (ACB) Senior Archaeologist Aimee Wells has encountered is well-meaning people using methods to clean gravestones that are harmful to the ...

With Halloween approaching, headstones and cemeteries may bring to mind spooky stories and ghostly encounters. But for ...

Peace Gardiner cleans and films historic headstones in Oregon cemeteries, using social media to uncover and share the ...