Funeral rituals, deeply rooted in cultural and religious practices, offer a profound glimpse into the diversity of human traditions. While many share common elements of grief and remembrance, some ...

If you’ve never been to the National Museum of Funeral History in Spring, it’s probably not what you think. When Genevieve Keeney, president of the National Museum of Funeral History, tells people ...

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 ...

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, ...

In 1963 a questionnaire on the subject of local funeral customs was circulated by the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, which elicited important information on a range of traditions associated with ...