When he saw the gravedigger pull the skull out of the dirt hole, he knew it could only bring bad luck. ...more

October 29, 2009

Before there was Hollywood, there was Jacksonville. Oliver Hardy made his debut film there in 1913's "Outwitting Daddy." The first feature-length color film produced in the United States - the 1917 release "The Gulf Between" - was filmed in Jacksonville. ...more

September 6, 2008

Every day for nine years, Barbara and James Roush have visited Serenity Meadows Memorial Park, Funeral Home and Crematory to place an artificial flower on their daughter's grave. ...more

May 27, 2008

RIVERVIEW - Vandals overturned and crushed dozens of grave markers at Serenity Meadows Memorial Park, 6919 Providence Road, the night before the cemetery's traditional Memorial Day service. ...more

May 26, 2008

Undeterred by controversy, a mysterious visitor paid his annual tribute at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe early Saturday, placing three red roses and a half-filled bottle of cognac before stealing away into the darkness. ...more

January 20, 2008

Some of the most poignant stories from the Clay Sink Cemetery are about the children buried there. ...more

December 26, 2007

Cemetery director Przemyslaw Isroel Szpilman walks among the moss-covered and crumbling gravestones of the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, painstakingly jotting details in his notebook. ...more

December 16, 2007

If Elvis were here today, he might say, "Thank you, thank you very much" for the 17 years that an odd Missouri outpost has been making the case that the King never died. ...more

November 4, 2007