Genealogy has become one of the biggest industries in the world as many people are interested in finding out where their family ancestry comes from. Every day you can see a new commercial on television from places like Ancestry.com and 23 and Me, where individuals can go so far as to even submit their DNA […]
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Architects bringing new life to the deceased
The idea that a cemetery, funeral home, crematoriums, and morgues are considered creepy or spooky is not a new concept. They have been featured prominently in pop culture as nefarious locations for villains and horror scenes. But a new wave of architecture spanning the globe is helping people connect with these sacred places and turn these spaces […]
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New Albany’s first cemetery to receive restoration funding
Historic cemeteries are not just locations where ancestors are buried but also act as historical documents of who came before and how each person helped form the society of the local area, state, country, and the world today. And this fact is not lost on The New Albany Cemetery Restoration Advisory Board, who brought to […]
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Ithaca City Cemetery to receive city-funded review for repairs
The college experience varies from campus to campus but each school has their own uniqueness to them. Cornell University, known for its high standard of academics, greek life and recently ranked in the top 20 universities in the United States, has a bit of historic uniqueness to it in to the form of Ithaca City […]
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Buddhist temple offers high-tech burial alternatives
As we all know, planning for your final resting place can be a difficult decision. In Japan, the decision is made even harder by the country’s declining birth rate, lack of available space and prices that have shot to some of the highest levels in recent memory. But one idea has truly taken off and has […]
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Historic graves help tell Titanic story
On April 15, 1912, over 1,500 lives were lost in the northern Atlantic from the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a ship dubbed as, “unsinkable.” To this day, it is considered one of the worst accidents in nautical history and is still investigated to this day, including offering tours of the wreckage starting in 2018. The […]
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Art exhibit opened at Green-Wood Cemetery
In March, we shared a story about French conceptual artist Sophie Calle and her art piece for the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. This past weekend was the exhibit’s grand opening to its 25 year run. The piece, entitled “Here Lie the Secrets of the Visitors of Green-Wood Cemetery,” is a large, marble obelisk with […]
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Cemetery using technology for digital tombstones
Humanity has always gone about memorializing the deceased with tributes to the person’s memory, from the Pyramids of Giza to the monuments at Arlington National Cemetery. Each tells a history of the person and now a historic cemetery in Maribor, Slovenia is taking their tombstones to the next level with digital tombstones. The idea is fairly simple: […]
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Canopy-restoration project helping cemetery and community
The Green Lawn Cemetery was founded in 1848, with a majority of its trees being alive prior to Ohio becoming a state, and with the canopy-restoration project in its third year, the cemetery is hoping give their trees an additional 200 years of life. The all-volunteer restoration project started three years ago as an effort to […]
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Monument for Vietnam helicopter crews coming to Arlington National Cemetery
After three years of bipartisan congressional wrangling, a monument honoring those who serves as helicopter pilots and crew members during the Vietnam war is coming to Arlington National Cemetery through the Vietnam Helicopter Crew Monument Act. The monument’s inception began in 2014 when the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association reached out to Arlington National Cemetery to discuss […]
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