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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...