To a geologist, a gravestone can offer information other rocks can't. One project is using gravestones to better understand how the elements, particularly acid rain, are weathering rocks around the ...

As millions of Americans take time this Memorial Day to remember the fallen, some veterans and family members are upset over a throwback to tradition in the appearance of national cemetery headstones.

HOLLAND, MI — It’s a Friday afternoon at Oakwood Cemetery in Traverse City, and Bob Cooke has a lot of work ahead of him. For Cooke, the owner of Wolverine Memorial Lettering Co. of Walker, the past ...

Something strange was going on in Section 17 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Gail Nicklason noticed the letters on her mother's marble headstone were starting to fade. But the black letters on her ...