Ever wonder why there are so many empty spaces in old cemeteries? Michael Emery, who has spent two decades documenting historic cemeteries throughout southeastern and central Pennsylvania, has ...

Nov. 1—With small hand shovels, Patrick Donmoyer and Kaya Hernandez carefully placed scoop after scoop of dirt into a 14-inch-deep hole, building up the soil on either side of a white, wooden marker.

Ruth Ginsberg Stein uses a Yiddish word to describe how the story of the restoration project of her grandmother’s 113-year-old wooden grave marker in Syracuse began. “Beshert,” meaning “preordained” ...

The weathered and worn wooden grave marker has stood for more than 125 years in a historic Berks County, Pennsylvania, cemetery. According to experts, it could belong to a Civil War soldier. Now, it ...

NEWPORT, R.I. — John Larkum leans over a slab of slate, striking a metal chisel with a brass-capped mallet. Tinny pings ring out as he sinks the tool into the soft, inky stone. Larkum is painstakingly ...