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 ...

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 ...

Old New England cemeteries aren’t spooky; they’re alive with history and art. They contain records of how colonial settlers lived and died, and they are the earliest public art galleries in the New ...

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 ...