Casey Stuart, a local preservationist and president of the Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans, will discuss “Tips for Cleaning Grave Markers” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15, at the East Bank ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: My name is Alicia Williams, and I'm a gravestone conservator. Today I'm going to show you how I clean gravestones.

During the Victorian era, it wasn’t uncommon to take a leisurely Sunday stroll through your local garden cemetery—perhaps stopping for a picnic lunch. But for the most part (with a few exceptions, ...

Many of the stone markers in the Rockingham Meeting House graveyard are tipped over, falling, fallen over or broken. During last week's seminar, progress was made in cleaning off layers of moss and ...

Kansas City’s historic Union Cemetery, founded in 1857, serves as the final resting place for more than 55,000 people, including many early pioneers of Westport. A group of volunteers has cleaned more ...

APPLETON – For several years, Laurel Sternhagen, a 36-year Army veteran, has placed U.S. flags at the grave sites of veterans buried at Riverside Cemetery as part of a Memorial Day tribute. But while ...

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 ...

Editor's note: Due to predicted rain on Saturday, this event will take place on Sunday, Oct. 28 at 8 a.m. in the same location. Student veterans and staff from the University of Delaware, Delaware ...

TROY – Dirt, pollution, and lichens often transform a gleaming white marble headstone for a veteran into a dark, unreadable slab of stone. That’s when Kelly Grimaldi, historian for the Albany Diocesan ...