This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.The village of Dargavs, or the City of the Dead, has an ancient cemetery where people that lived in the valley buried their loved ones along with their clothes and belongings. The valley stretches for 17 kilometers, and the cemetery contains […]
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Sucre’s General Cemetery
As you enter Sucre’s general cemetery, a bold sign above the imposing white entrance warns Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi: Today Me, Tomorrow You. Walking around the pristine gardens of the cemetery, the endless rows of stacked graves serves only to re-enforce this message. But with it comes a strange sense of peace. The palpable serenity […]
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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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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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Boy Scout Restoring Cemetery Headstones for Eagle Project
The Boy Scouts of America was founded in February of 1910 and in that time span has produced over two million Eagle Scouts in their 106 history. That may seem like a high number but when you consider that only 5% of all active scouts ever achieve that goal, the number of Eagle Scouts is […]
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Community Comes Together to Support Cemetery
Every day in the news, we are shown stories of how a person hurt another, stories of discrimination of one person or group or another, and even the battle fields in foreign countries. The news is simply meant to make the public aware of what is happening around their citizens and help to prepare them to be […]
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On Wisconsin: Cemetery restoration in Mineral Point takes patience, persistence and epoxy
Mineral Point, WI is the final resting place of many influential people who helped develop Mineral Point and the state of Wisconsin, including the state’s first governor, Henry Dodge. Like many things in this world, however, time has taken it’s toll on the city’s rural cemetery since it last hosted a funeral more than 100 years […]
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