† Bones of Contention †

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. — Ps. civ [ciii]. 33. This is the back of the...

The deceased died in 1930, at the beginning of the Great Depression. The cross was engraved with biographical information. The cross was ste...

I have already complained about memorial parks. In many, there are virtually only markers flush to the ground. Which makes it easy to cut ...

Sprankle Mausoleum is late XIXth century neo-Gothic. They really don't build them like this anymore. It has five crocketted spires, usus...

the dessicated maple leaf was there Looking back at photos i took, i decided to put these on the net. Some others were visually interesting ...

When people came to America they still knew the ways of the old country and followed their natural cultural. This extended to burial practic...

The globe is the Workmen's Circle emblem. The letters 'A', 'R' stand for Arbeter Ring, the Yiddish for the former. Workm...