Once a month, Rene Amy gets some cleaning supplies and volunteers together and heads to his Alta Dena neighborhood historic cemetery to scrub and scrub. Saturday morning, the crew was out at the ...
Many of the hundreds of stone markers in the graveyard are tipped over, falling, fallen over or broken. During last week's seminar, progress was made in cleaning off layers of moss and lichen, making ...
OREGON, Ohio — When retired U.S. Navy veteran Jim Phillips asked his wife, Sue, why no one was cleaning or maintaining military grave markers, she asked him, "Why don't you?" Taking those words of ...
The scrape, scrape, scrape sounds like a dental hygienist using a scaler to clean teeth. But here in Cemetery No. 2 on San Antonio's historic East Side, it's actually Mark Richerson using a plastic ...
A clean-up of the historic Greenfield Hill Cemetery is planned Saturday, April 23, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and a local group has put out a call for volunteers to help. The day's work will focus on ...
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 ...
Volunteers from the Daughters of the American Revolution’s William Henry Harrison Chapter are tackling Valparaiso’s Old City Cemetery on Union Street as their latest historic preservation project.
John Porazinski knelt in the grass at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen on Wednesday morning, carefully scrubbing the headstones of his fellow veterans. Dressed in an army rain ...
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - The Friends of Lansing’s Historic Cemeteries held a public service project in Lansing on Sunday. Around a dozen people helped clear and clean the 61 grave markers at the Boys ...
EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – The American Legion Family from Dalton Lavalleep Post 224, in conjunction with The Easthampton Veterans Council, will be cleaning veteran markers at the Old East Street ...