Kerry Miller portrays Martin Breem, who served in the Union Army and went on to become a prominent Chicago attorney, for visitors to the Vintage Voices event at Alton Cemetery on Saturday, Oct. 11, ...

When the earliest settlers arrived in our town, they were forging ahead with opportunities bestowed upon them in the form of land grants and incentives. The Massachusetts Bay Colony granted the land ...

For the past year, writer and researcher Tom Klopfer has spent his free time among the well known and the long forgotten of area graveyards. Having visited 40 cemeteries, Klopfer put together about ...

Gail Drillinger, Talia McDonald and Annalynn Abbott portray Alton teacher Mary Alice McCarthy and two of her students during Vintage Voices at Alton Cemetery on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. It turns out ...

ALTON - Committee chair Jody Basola expressed gratitude for the community's strong support of Vintage Voices and the event's ...

It’s something we don’t always like to talk about in the Western world. But death is all around us, and it’s one of the only unifying things about everyone on this planet. Everyone will die, and most ...

Every life is a story that ends in a sad event — namely the death of the central character. So to walk through a quiet cemetery is to leaf through a storybook filled with narratives of people who ...

LAGRANGE, Ga. (WTVM) - Dating back to 1863, the Mulberry Street Cemetery in LaGrange, Georgia has been a resting place for over 1,000 unmarked graves; many of these individuals believed to be African ...

In honor of Black History Month, volunteers will clean up Olivewood Cemetery. Volunteers are coming together to clean up Olivewood and College Park Memorial Cemetery in honor of Black History Month.

METTMANN, Germany (AP) — Michael Froehlich celebrated his 50th birthday in 2000 by buying 50 vintage cars, all manufactured the year he was born. After removing the oil and pollutants, Froehlich ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - At the 19th Annual Biloxi Cemetery Tour, history is being preserved through story telling. As the event’s organizers and actors say, there’s a lot that goes into telling these ...

During Halloween season, it’s not uncommon to see your neighbors’ front yards adorned with fake tombstones and ghosts. While some might refer to this as graveyard decor, others go with cemetery.