TAUNTON — Walker-Blake Graveyard Restoration Project President Bob Bates said he'd like Taunton to take ownership of the historic Walker-Blake Graveyard and prohibit future burials in the cemetery.

During the Halloween season—a trip to a cemetery can be part of a spooky adventure. But in one Kansas City cemetery, volunteers work to clean markers and tombstones in order to preserve history.

TAUNTON — “Here lies the body of Elizabeth Walker, the wife of James Walker, aged 59, died in the year 1678, August ye 14.” That’s the inscription on the oldest legible gravestone in Taunton. There ...

Though the terms are often used interchangeably, coffins and caskets are actually completely different things. The same goes for ghosts and ghouls, though I have to admit that the difference between ...

Luckhurst (Gothic) glides through the long history of how humanity has dealt with its dead in this wide-ranging account. He divides his study into three sections; the first is a chronological march ...