Hurricane Matthew is currently battering Nassau and will be making landfall in Florida by Friday. This is the first hurricane to rate above a category 3 hurricane since 2005 when Hurricane Wilma hit Cape Romano in southeastern Florida (Hurricane Forecast). As Hurricane Matthew ramps up for its move to Florida on Friday, many are evacuating the […]
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Local Actoring Troupe Entertains and Educates in the Macabre
Well, it’s October and that means one thing: Halloween. Every year around this time, people go out and pick up their costumes, buy big bags of candy, and prepare to be scared. Parents help their children get their routes planned for optimal candy collection, secretly so that they can raid their child’s bags when the kids […]
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Hawaii to open first Memorial Reef Site in Oahu
Richard Filanc, a resident of Oahu, Hawaii is opening up Hawaii Memorial Reefs in March 2017. This will be the second memorial reef operation to open up in the United States and the first in the state of Hawaii. Hawaii Memorial Reefs constructs artificial reefs using concrete structures known as Reef Balls. These reef balls […]
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African-American Cemetery Awarded Historical Marker
There are times when history sneaks up on you. Sounds like a funny quote but it’s true; we never think about something like a location being historic at the time of its inception. We think, “well, we need this, so let’s make it.” One location that many never think of as being historic are cemeteries, but […]
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Cemetery Celebrates 20 Years of Historic Tours
Cemeteries, as many people know, are brimming with history. They are a link to our past and offer us the opportunity to learn about our forefathers. Many cemeteries are using their cemeteries to help educate the public about the history of their city, like Wilmington, NC’s Oakdale Cemetery, but the Gallatin City Cemetery in Gallatin, TN […]
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179 Unmarked Graves Located with Technology
The Oakwood Cemetery in Tyler, TX is an older cemetery. It was established in 1846, with its first occupant being laid to rest in 1852. The cemetery even has a mass grave that was used for confederate soldiers of the Civil War called the Soldier’s Plot. One of the sections lost to time was a […]
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9/11 Memorial Unveiled at Spring Hill Cemetery
This year marked the fifteenth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Many in the nation payed respect to those who lost their lives by participating in a moment of silence, or in supporting the local fire fighter and emergency service parades, or attending local 9/11 memorial services. One such service was performed at the […]
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Arlington National Cemetery Lays World War II WASP Pilot to Rest
Elaine Harmon, who passed away on April 21, 2015 at age 95, was a WASP (Women’s Army Service Pilot) during World War II, and flew noncombat missions during the war. Though she was never in a dog fight, her noncombat flights let male pilots focus on combat missions that guaranteed victory over Germany and the Nazi party. Even […]
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Long-lost Cemetery Found
Aquinas College is a small, catholic college in Nashville, Tennessee, but they are looking to expand. Well, at least that was the goal until late last month when “a worker leveling the ground in front of a new residence hall saw something unusual peeking through the soil,” (AT). That “something unusual” turned out to be the headstone of Charles […]
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Outside–the–Box Cemeteries
As the world’s population grows, so too do cemeteries. The search for premium land suitable for burying a loved one is becoming more and more scarce with each passing day. So what does one do? Well, the Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica, in Santos, Brazil solves this conundrum by going up, as the world’s tallest vertical cemetery. Inaugurated in […]
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