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 ...

THE LAST. YEAR OF HIS LIFE. SO MANY MEMORIES PRESERVED IN IMAGES. THIS IS HIS MARINE CORPS PICTURE. JACK WAS VERY PROUD OF BEING A MARINE. EVEN MORE MEMORIES PRESERVED WITH WORDS. NEVER AGAIN WILL I ...

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 ...

Two years before the Declaration of Independence was signed, Anstiss Crowninshield’s gravestone was laid in its place at the Old Burying Point Cemetery in Salem, right next to one that belonged to her ...

As Halloween approaches, the art found in spooky graveyards demonstrate an evolution from the simple to the spectacular. Graveyard art — that is, carved grave markers, memorials and sculpted ...

Old New England cemeteries aren't spooky; they're alive with history and art. They contain records of how colonial settlers lived and died, and they are the earliest public art galleries in the New ...

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 ...

Dan Long already has his headstone picked out ? a sleek slab of black granite with his name carved into it. “Just have to carve the date of death, and I hope my son will do that,” said Long, who works ...

Peter Benes served as Treasurer in 1977 and Archives Officer in 1978. He received the Forbes Award of the AGS in 1979 for his role in founding the organization and in recognition of the contributions ...