"I've got my love to keep me warm," goes the old holiday song. For those of us less fortunate — those who have passed on to a chillier world — there are grave blankets. Perhaps they're a holiday ...
— Hundreds of grave blankets made by students at Cumberland Regional High School were placed at the Cumberland County Veterans Cemetery Saturday afternoon. “It’s a remembrance ceremony to honor these ...
Their exact origin is lost to history. Some say grave blankets began in Scandinavia, where families would place evergreen boughs on graves in winter, a simple decoration to add color in a stark, white ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — University of Minnesota students will create a floral "grave blanket" Thursday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. The students are ...