- This week is the 35th Annual AGS (Association for Gravestone Studies) Conference, being held at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey. (Conference runs June 19-24, 2012; Ed Snyder will be on site in the Sales Room on Friday, June 22 with his StoneAngels artwork – cards, prints, and books! (Read more here: http://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences.htm)
- Headstone with flag is from a small town churchyard cemetery in southwest New Jersey, on the Delaware Bay. (St George’s Episcopal Church, Pennsville Twp., NJ)
Death, Mourning & the Afterlife
Ed’s Cemetery Traveler Blog
- The Day of the Cemetery Flood – 50 Years Ago August 6, 2022Well, its been 50 years this year, 2022, since Hurricane Agnes caused a massive flood in my hometown near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The swollen Susquehanna River broke through the dike in Forty-Fort, PA, and gutted the Forty-Fort Cemetery on June 23, 1972. My parents, along with my younger brother and sister, lived a few miles from […]