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 ...

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

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 ...

In about 1828, Sikes and his wife, Lucretia, moved to Brookfield, where he continued carving. He died in 1855 and is buried in Brookfield Township Cemetery, where some of his stones can be seen. He ...

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 ...