SPRINGFIELD – In the early 1700s, gravestones throughout New England were often adorned with an etching of a winged skull. But in this city, that symbol is missing from historic gravestones. “Part of ...

Iris Howe is filled with emotion as she etches her grandfather's name in stone. Manuel Lifchez died October 2020 at age 93. A year after his death, Howe didn't expect his passing to still impact her ...

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 ...

SALEM — During the pandemic, Andrew Carr found himself drawn to the city’s old burying grounds. A lifelong Salem native, a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and an artist by trade, Carr was ...

The Medfield Historical Society will present the third of its spring programs, “Medfield’s Other Art Gallery: Gravestone Art and Carvers in Vine Lake Cemetery,” taking place in the vestry of the First ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — Gravestones typically vary in size, but one in Grand Rapids is larger than expected - 6 feet tall and close to six tons. Hobby photographer, Scott Ward has the hobby of capturing ...

It's not news that digital forms of communication are replacing hand-written letters and diaries with text messages and Facebook entries. Even the ancient art of carving an epitaph on a gravestone is ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs maintains more than four million gravesites across the U.S. Three of them have Nazi swastikas carved into the headstones. The World War II-era gravestones with Nazi ...