Grave rubbing has been a special practice and technique for centuries to preserve the appearance and lettering of grave markers. Also known as tombstone or headstone rubbing, it is an especially ...

Minda Powers-Douglas will offer a workshop on cemetery art and gravestone rubbings at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 14, in historic Chippiannock Cemetery in Rock Island. Ms. Powers-Douglas, author of the ...

A great body of important Early American stone sculpture is in danger of annihilation. Weather, children, riflemen and clumsy power mowers are rapidly wreaking havoc on the ancient tombstones that ...

This is a grave matter. Someone has been haunting the cemeteries hereabouts. In fact, he has been haunting them elsewhere, but all in a good cause: to make gravestone rubbings of designs and epitaphs ...

For the past 30 years, John Wegrzyn of Belleville has enjoyed an unusual hobby: He makes rubbings of the graves of legendary musicians. He has tracked down the tombstones of Jimi Hendrix and Charlie ...

KEARNEY — Sunrise Middle School students were introduced to Kearney’s most influential figures at the Kearney Cemetery this week. The students used a technique called “grave rubbing” to research the ...