Concrete

• Uncovering Hidden Stories of Arsenal Island

  For years I have lived near the Mississippi River, and there are plenty of people who were just like me, and as teens we took for granted that the river is so close to us. It is not something that we get to be all that far away from, and there are those who would…

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  Exploring the Fascination with Cemeteries

  Death, it seems to surround some of us, and then there are those of us who have seen the backside of death. By that I mean that we are the ones who are left behind and have to make sense of the deaths of the people we have known all these years. But that is…

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  Did Someone Really Try to Steal Lincoln’s Body?

  There is a reason that Lincoln’s body lay in a vault that is 10 feet below where his grave stone is, and that there is nothing but concrete between the gravestone and the vault, but what is the story that we can learn about this odd grave setup, and why is it important to United…

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