An ethical dilemma in the Boston bombings aftermath
A story about the funeral home that accepted Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body appeared on the front page of the New York Times‘ …
Category Archives: Cemeteries
Top views from St. Mary’s Cemetery, Winona, Minn.
On April 29, I had the perfect excuse to visit the lovely Mississippi River town of Winona, Minn. I came …
A great example of a cemetery story
My favorite thing about going into a cemetery is walking among the gravestones and deducing the stories of people buried …
“Macabre and lyrical”
The “macabre and lyrical” description used by Eric G. Wilson in the April 7 StarTribune review of WE’LL BE THE …
Neil Gaiman, “Our Town” and memorial benches
Amy Goetzman of MinnPost interviewed me recently about my book. I talk about what makes a cemetery inviting, the phenomenon …
“…drawn to the stories she gathered in graveyards”
Tanner Kent did a great job writing a story about my book that appeared in today’s edition of the Mankato …
A cemetery of significance
I got to my hotel in Boston around midnight on Tuesday. By 9 a.m. Wednesday morning, I was on my …
Bubba’s Digging
I like to think if Dad were still alive, he would have a website for his gravedigging much like the …
The art of the cemetery
In my book, I write, “Art was gravedigging; Dad just happened to carve dirt instead of clay or marble.” Growing …
Mausoleum accolades
The Minneapolis StarTribune named Joan Soranno, the architect who designed the new mausoleum at Lakewood Cemetery, the 2012 Artist of …
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