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How preservationists clean 19th-century grave markers

Cleaning historic headstones is not about making them look new. It’s about slowing decay and preserving what remains. In this ...
OREGON, Ohio — When retired U.S. Navy veteran Jim Phillips asked his wife, Sue, why no one was cleaning or maintaining military grave markers, she asked him, "Why don't you?" Taking those words of ...
The scrape, scrape, scrape sounds like a dental hygienist using a scaler to clean teeth. But here in Cemetery No. 2 on San Antonio's historic East Side, it's actually Mark Richerson using a plastic ...