The first time Rosie Grant baked a recipe she found etched on a stranger’s gravestone, she made a batch of spritz cookies. From her kitchen in Takoma Park, Md., Grant mixed the batter in a big bowl.

David Jones / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) Famous epitaphs offer a glimpse into what made some of the most culturally significant people in the ...

Epitaphs on gravestones are something that most genealogists find intriguing. Some are funny or witty, some inspirational, and many give insight into the person interred under the stone. This week is ...

In 1991 the Star asked readers what they would put on their tombstones. The results — 47 of them ran in print on Oct. 31, 1991 — are simultaneously funny, strange, sad and just chock full of terrible ...

Above my desk is a photo I took some years ago while walking through a cemetery. I had no idea then why I stopped to take a picture of a tombstone without a name but with two words etched in the stone ...

The Disney artists who designed the interiors, audio-animatronic characters, portraits, special effects and sight gags inside the Haunted Mansion never signed their artwork, but they still managed to ...

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My chapter focuses on the relationship between the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters and its ancient Greek models, namely the epitaphs from Book 7 of the Greek Anthology. My aim is to show, ...