To a geologist, a gravestone can offer information other rocks can't. One project is using gravestones to better understand how the elements, particularly acid rain, are weathering rocks around the ...

As millions of Americans take time this Memorial Day to remember the fallen, some veterans and family members are upset over a throwback to tradition in the appearance of national cemetery headstones.

HOLLAND, MI — It’s a Friday afternoon at Oakwood Cemetery in Traverse City, and Bob Cooke has a lot of work ahead of him. For Cooke, the owner of Wolverine Memorial Lettering Co. of Walker, the past ...

Something strange was going on in Section 17 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Gail Nicklason noticed the letters on her mother's marble headstone were starting to fade. But the black letters on her ...

But Stephen Eyre QC also side-stepped church regulations to approve other aspects of the gravestone – even though they go against normal church yard rules. Chancellor Eyre, Chancellor of the Diocese ...

The inaugural meeting of the Louisiana Chapter of the Association for Gravestone Studies is slated for 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Dec. 16 at Hill Memorial Library. It is free and open to the public. The ...

GSA says the weathering rates of gravestones indicate changes in the acidity of rainfall between locations and over time. The acidity is affected by air pollution and other factors, and could be used ...

The gravestone of notorious Chicago criminal kingpin Al Capone was branded 'evil' after vandals defaced his resting place with graffiti. The grave was found with the red lettering spray-painted across ...

Enormous gravestone would 'overshadow and dominate' quaint cemetery in Staffordshire A GARISH gravestone for the late “King of the Gipsies” David Jones must be scaled down or it will “dominate” the ...