Burial Sites Clearing Season Ends for 2025
Visiting Rohatyn’s old Jewish cemetery with friends during a clearing cycle| Rohatyn Jewish Heritage
Friars Bush, Belfast’s oldest and eeriest graveyard, holds mass graves, body snatchers’ tales, and ghostly footsteps, writes HAUNTED CHARLIE HALL| Spooky Ireland
Минулого тижня Марла і я дізналися від нашого колеги Василя Юзишина, що двоє чоловіків, які займаються розчищенням та доглядом єврейських кладовищ у Рогатині, завершили свою роботу на 2025 рік. Зараз у Рогатині та регіоні значно похолоднішало, а тривалість світлового дня ш...| Rohatyn Jewish Heritage
Visiting Rohatyn’s old Jewish cemetery with friends during a clearing cycle| Rohatyn Jewish Heritage
Deborah Contessa’s Beyond the Graves of Layton Cemetery brings Blackpool’s forgotten Victorian residents vividly back to life through captivating stories carved in stone, writes ZOWIE SWAN| Spooky Lancashire
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I’m not sure how to survive without writing. It is what I want to do with the time I am alive. The idea of sacrificin…| Literary Hub
Boston is a great place for cemeteries. If you visit our fair city as a tourist and walk the Freedom Trail, which is the red-brick line that connects downtown Boston’s and Charlestown’s…| Pathetic Fallacy
To see a completely different side to Paris, stroll through the Left Bank to the Museum of Liberation. It's an eye opener.| Life…one big adventure
If there was any question about the black-and-gold beaded rosary, one only needs to look down. At the foot of the concrete statuary figure in blue (a monk? saint? pious Orbit readers, help this heathen out!) is a grave marker in red granite. Along with the deceased’s name, dates, and engraved rope-like border, is the … Continue reading Sudden Death, Over Time: Steeler Graves II| Pittsburgh Orbit
A photo of two tombstones which mark the graves of Black settlers in Ontario. (William Felepchuk)| MOBA
Далі подано описовий звіт Єврейської спадщини Рогатина (ЄСР), що охоплює календарний 2024 рік, який є восьмим роком нашої діяльності як волонтерської неприбуткової громадської організації в Україні. Як і в минулі роки, цей звіт підсумовує прогрес нашого проєкту і події раз...| Rohatyn Jewish Heritage
This is a descriptive annual report for Rohatyn Jewish Heritage (RJH) covering the calendar year 2024, representing our eighth consecutive year of operation as a volunteer-led non-profit NGO in Ukraine. As in past years, this report summarizes our project progress and events together with an outline of our NGO finances. This year our organization struggled even more in an irregular work mode caused by the ongoing Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, which is impacting our future plans as wel...| Rohatyn Jewish Heritage
Portobello Cemetery is a relatively modern burial ground on the outskirts of Edinburgh, opened in 1877 and in continual use to modern day.| Burials & Beyond
З похолоданням і зменшенням кількості сонячних годин на заході України сезонне розчищення від дикої рослинності на чотирьох єврейських місцях поховань у Рогатині добігає кінця. Коли Марла, Віто та я відвідали місто, щоб оглянути єврейські місця протягом першого тижня ц...| Rohatyn Jewish Heritage
The south mass grave site a few weeks ago. Photo © RJH.| Rohatyn Jewish Heritage
Opened in 1837, York Cemetery was one of the UK’s earliest Victorian garden cemeteries.| Burials & Beyond
How do you know what kind of casket you should pick? Answer these 5 questions to find out!| Funeral Basics
Looking south across the 1942 mass grave today, from the Soviet monument to the Jewish survivors’ and descendants’ monument. Photo © RJH.| Rohatyn Jewish Heritage
At left, Marla among flowering plants at the south mass grave; at right, periwinkle and other flowering plants at the north mass grave.| Rohatyn Jewish Heritage
Many people tend to be creeped out by graveyards and memorial gardens, especially around Halloween and the Day of the Dead. Yet these places can have the opposite effect, awakening in visitors a ne…| A-wing and A-way
