Cemeteries

In “The Beginner’s Guide to Cemetery Sleuthing,” Erin Moulton decodes recurring symbols found on old gravestones and gives steps for how to learn more about the people buried there.

New Hampshire law requires that city and town welfare departments pay for the cremation and burial services of unclaimed people, and those whose family and friends can’t afford to or live too far away.

The town of Stark has finally decided what to do with its failing riverside cemetery: move it, as NHPR’s Sean Hurley reports. Chairman of the Cemetery…

Following the discovery of human remains on the failing river embankment below Blake Cemetery in Stark, the Attorney General’s Office told town officials…

There are thousands of historic cemeteries and burial grounds all over the state of New Hampshire, and a state lawmaker wants to make it easier to keep…