Once a month, Rene Amy gets some cleaning supplies and volunteers together and heads to his Alta Dena neighborhood historic cemetery to scrub and scrub. Saturday morning, the crew was out at the ...
John Porazinski knelt in the grass at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen on Wednesday morning, carefully scrubbing the headstones of his fellow veterans. Dressed in an army rain ...
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How preservationists clean 19th-century grave markers

Cleaning historic headstones is not about making them look new. It’s about slowing decay and preserving what remains. In this cemetery, a mid-19th-century marker was treated using gentle biological ...
John Rains drives a golf cart along the south end of Oakland and Fraternal Cemetery, near a concrete and red brick fence in the shadow of trees felled by recent storms. On one side of the wall, a ...