In late October, 2025, I joined a group of people in Oak Grove Cemetery in Wyandotte County, Kansas, to learn now to clean headstones. The program was hosted by the Wyandotte County Historical Museum, and there were folks from the county Parks and Rec Department to show us what to do. It was chilly and Read More
Tag: Cemeteries
Over My Dead Body, by Greg Melville
The subtitle of this book is “Unearthing the hidden history of America’s cemeteries”, and that is basically what Melville accomplishes with this book. Each of the seventeen chapters discusses at least one cemetery, and sometimes more when he compares and contrasts other, sometimes nearby, cemeteries. For example, the (previously) whites only cemeteries, compared with the Read More