SYLMAR - A geophysicist believes he has solved a mystery that has confounded generations of Valley historians for years: how many people are buried at the historic Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, the region's second-oldest burial ground. Brian Damiata has identified at least 210 graves at the cemetery, where for decades, unconfirmed reports and rumors listed the number of burials as up to 750. The cemetery was the burial site for many of the Valley's early settlers in the late 19th and early 20th century, but many of the graves are now unmarked after years of vandalism and theft.
By Meredith Kruse The Virginian-Pilot
PRESTON, Idaho -- Tribal members descend in late January each year to the burial ground near the Bear River where soldiers felled hundreds of their ancestors in one of American history's bloodiest - - but little remembered -- massacres. Descendants of the Northwestern Shoshone who were decimated in their winter encampment in a surprise attack 147 years ago, they stamp their feet in the cold and offer songs and prayers to the dead.
LOS ANGELES - A plan to bury Michael Jackson at his sprawling Neverland ranch fizzled Wednesday, leaving details about his funeral undecided as another mystery was solved: His newly unveiled will says his mother should raise his children or, failing her, Diana Ross. The investigation into the singer's death deepened late Wednesday when the Drug Enforcement Administration was asked to step in by the Los Angeles Police Department, a law enforcement official in Washington told The Associated Press .
CHICAGO, Aug. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is pleased to announce the U.S. premiere of The Burial at Thebes, a riveting new translation of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 East Grand Avenue, Sept. 18 - 20. This production is part of the Foundation's Poetry on Stage series of dramatic readings of verse plays inaugurated last spring with T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, at five Chicago-area churches. All performances start at 7:30 p.m. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's new telling of Antigone explores the dangers of pride and absolute belief regardless of personal, political and moral consequences, especially in the eternal struggle between the individual and the state, between conscience and society...
OLD TAPPAN - The state has lifted a ban on burials and grave sales at the Old Tappan Cemetery. The cease and desist order was lifted last month, when the New Jersey Cemetery Board gave the 1-acre burial ground a certificate of authority.
By Donald Bradley McClatchy Newspapers
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