AUGUSTA — Cemetery historian and author Ron Romano plans to give a presentation, “An Understanding Symbolism on Maine’s Early Gravestones,” at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 20. The talk will be ...

"In interpreting meanings of such symbols as angels, hands, or lambs, readers can perhaps begin to understand a bit of the history of gravestone carvings.

The Naperville Cemetery gravestone for Judith and John Lee was made by Chicago sculptor Walter S. Arnold, an Elgin resident who was Judith's first cousin. He wanted to incorporate symbols that ...

The Naperville Cemetery gravestone for Judith and John Lee was made by Chicago sculptor Walter S. Arnold, an Elgin resident who was Judith’s first cousin. He wanted to incorporate symbols that ...

A seal of the fraternal organization Woodmen of the World adorns a headstone at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk, photographed on June, 20, 2016. Tim Bonney said his grandfather, Robert Morris Baker, a ...

Two headstones have been vandalized with Nazi symbols in a cemetery in Franklin.Workers at the cemetery on Thompson Park said one headstone was spray-painted with the word "Hitler," and the other ...

Footsteps away, another gravestone is marked with the SS lightning bolts proudly worn by the elite Nazi troops who executed most of the crimes of the Holocaust. Austrian law bans such symbols, and ...