In the old days, Egyptians would bury a pharaoh and throw in a slave or a wife or two to keep him company in the afterlife. Romans would carry torches in a funeral procession. Colonials would head to ...

COVID-19 has disrupted everyday life, changing how people socialize, shop, work -- and worship. Health laws and pandemic restrictions can make it challenging to honor a particular religion’s death ...

COLONIAL HEIGHTS — One of the gems of Colonial Heights is, no doubt, Violet Bank Museum where you can see exhibits from the periods between 1815 to 1873 including Civil War artifacts, guns, furniture, ...

When the Museum of Funeral Customs folded, most of its memorabilia ended up at a local museum in Carthage, Illinois, between Keokuk and Macomb in western Illinois. From this description published in ...

If the funeral lunch is at Przybylo’s White Eagle in Niles, you can count on having pierogies, but when the dearly departed were laid out in the parlor, there wasn’t enough time to prepare the ...