Archive for the ‘Cemeteries’ Category
Cemeteries: More than Just Gloom and Doom
18, Aug 2010To Attract Future Customers, Cemeteries Hold Parties to Die For Graveyards Plan Concerts, Sky-Diving, Clowns; ‘Meet Us Before You Need Us’ Araby Williams, Wall Street Journal Multimedia Producer and Stephanie Simon, The Wall Street Journal (August 12, 2010) The Wall Street Journal ran this short video on cemeteries working to attract a wider audience. This [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: celebrity death, funerals, marketing, video
Arlington Cemetery Problems Just Keep Coming
3, Aug 2010At Arlington Cemetery, Years of Problems Aaron C. Davis and Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post (July 26, 2010) From the graves of Supreme Court justices to a section for freed slaves, Arlington National Cemetery seems to have been egalitarian in its mistakes. Arlington Cemetery Problems were Documented in 2005 but Never Fixed Aaron C. [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Law|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
Săpânţa: The Happy Cemetery Dumneazu (July 23, 2010) While grave markers can be creative and downright wacky, most reflect the solemnity of death — just the facts, m’am, perhaps with an accurate but general epitaph, like “Loving wife and mother.” Aren’t they all? And would you really say otherwise if not? The Happy Cemetery in [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cemeteries|Death + Art / Architecture
- Tags: grave markers, memorializing
Kites and Hungry Ghosts Await at Mountain View
5, Jul 2010Mountain View Cemetery Summer Open House Sunday, July 11, 2010 | 11am – 3pm | 39th & Fraser St. | Vancouver, BC Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, BC, invites you to its open house, er, cemetery next Sunday to explore and experience “award winning architecture, kites, tours, and hungry ghosts.” I attended last year (and [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cemeteries
- Tags: tours
Going Extreme to Fix Arlington Cemetery
1, Jul 2010At Arlington Cemetery, Army Ready for Drastic Measures Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post (July 1, 2010) The situation at Arlington National Cemetery keeps getting more and more complicated. I wrote last week about the mismanagement of Arlington’s burials and you can find that post here: Fixing Arlington Cemetery. To its eternal credit, the Washington [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Law|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers