The dead do tell tales. The trick is to listen and when you do, you will learn that the great architect Louis Sullivan’s “grave was initially unmarked (when he died in 1924, he was out of fashion and ...

If a story is never told, where does it go? Does it stay with the author? Does it fade into the void? Or does it find a way to be told? These are just a few of the questions asked in Julia Alvarez’s ...

In Weybridge author Julia Alvarez‘s abundantly populated new novel, an aging writer named Alma, who publishes under the nom de plume Scheherazade, decides to call it quits. She leaves Vermont and ...

Cemeteries can scare people, so it’s no wonder some people were surprised when Jane Hopkins told them she was putting together a book on burial grounds. “People said, ‘You’re doing what?’” she ...

For a decade, visitors to Rock Island’s historic Chippiannock Cemetery learned about the past and had fun doing so during the cemetery’s popular “Epitaphs Brought to Life” tours. Participants stopped ...

"The graveyard that once held -- or possibly still holds -- his remains is indeed the oldest (non-Native American) cemetery in Arkansas," Burnett wrote. Historian Morris S. Arnold, who is cited ...

Phil Goodstein is one of Denver’s most popular historians, not to mention one of its favorite tour guides. His takes on different sections and eras of the city are some of the constants of local ...

With a great sense of history and “without spectacle,” he wrote about the gravesites of Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Liberace, Al Jolson, Marlyn Monroe and many others. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Mark J.

John Reble, who is not only Milton's fire chief, but also an author and noteworthy historian in a town chock full of history, sees things in the city's cemetery that less experienced eyes would skip ...

CHEYENNE — History, when documented, often stands the test of time. People, however, often do not. The thesis behind the latest Cheyenne history book from local writing duo Starley Talbott and Michael ...