Articles
Notes from the field on old grave markers of every kind, from every part of the country.
Plain-language articles on caring for America’s old burial grounds, written for volunteers, families and cemetery caretakers.
- The Smiley Twins
By Cara Kent. Twin brothers born in Vassalboro in 1828 who built Mohonk Mountain House and left their mark from New York to California. - Charles B. Webber
By Cara Kent. A Vassalboro founder’s family, from the Candlemas Massacre and the Salem witch trials to the beginnings of Vassalboro village. - Wooden Grave Markers
America’s most fragile memorials: where the last ones survive and how to care for one. - White Bronze (Zinc) Markers
The blue-gray monuments that look almost new. How to recognize zinc and what not to do to it. - Cast & Wrought Iron Markers
Foundry tablets, fences and the hand-forged crosses of the Northern Plains, and how to stop the rust. - Coquina & Tabby Tombs
The shell-stone graves of the Southeast coast, and the cement repair mistake that destroys them.
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