The Gravestone Girls also give lectures on cemetery carvings, and discuss with groups the meanings behind the symbols. They also teach gravestone rubbing classes. It’s a mix of both preservation ...

It takes some hard labor and detective work, but volunteers working at the West Side Cemetery have discovered pieces of Geneva history that have not been seen for decades. For instance, Geneva Hist… ...

Sep. 27—NORWICH — For the past three years, city Historian Dale Plummer wrestled with the question of how best to honor the memory of an 11-year-old African American girl, who died in 1781. In ...

Don Henson, a Cemetery Trooper with VFW Post 3336 of East Haddam, uses a special epoxy to glue together three broken pieces of Lucy Ann Meech's 180-year-old marble gravestone.

A group of volunteers is fixing gravestones at Old Town Hall Cemetery in Washington. Some of them date back to the 1700s ... whose photos grace her living room walls. “Since we moved here, 25 years ...