Remembering Jane Scott - 1919 - 2011 - Former Rock 'n' Roll Reporter for the Cleveland "Plain Dealer"

Remembering Jane Scott and her career as a Cleveland Plain Dealer Rock 'n' Roll reporter.  Click on title to read more about her life.  Currently her funeral arrangements are pending per the funeral home.

Happy Fourth of July!!!

Happy Fourth of July!!!  

May it be joyous and safe for everyone.

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I hope we can take a few moments today to visit a gravesite, or post a message with a virtual flower on a memorial posted on "Find A Grave" of a loved one, or even a stranger to honor our nation's 235th birthday and celebrate our American Independence.

I have a link (click on title!) to burial records at Union Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.  Thanks to the internet we can virtually 'explore' burial sites even if we are not able to visit them in person.  

As with "Find A Grave", we can request gravestone photographs from kind and generous photo volunteers. 

More than ever, we now are able to locate where our ancestors were buried. 

But, we still need to preservere and protect their gravesites so time, vandalism, weather, and neglect don't steal them from us.  

We never take a holiday from caring about them do we. 

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Thank you for your encouragement and support with this blog, and my best to you and yours to enjoy the 4th of July today!!

Featuring a "Columbus Dispatch" story about Beth Santore who will be at Green Lawn Cemetery on July 9, 2011 at 11:00a.m. presenting information about the Association for Gravestone Studies -- Beth founded the Ohio Chapter of AGS!

It is my pleasure to share a link (click on title) to a story featured in today's "The Columbus Dispatch" about Beth Santore of Columbus, Ohio. 

Beth has an important presentation coming up on Saturday, July 9, 2011, beginning at 11:00a.m. at Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus.

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Beth also hosts the website Grave Addiction, which I have long enjoyed browsing for cemetery and gravestone information and photographs.

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Quoting from the "Dispatch" story today:

"Santore, who works in information technology at Nationwide, will share her knowledge at:
11 a.m. Saturday in Huntington Chapel at Green Lawn Cemetery, 1000 Greenlawn Ave.

The talk is part of the free "First Saturday" series of programs (moved to the second Saturday this month)."

"She will discuss the National Association for Gravestone Studies, an organization of people who share her fascination with cemeteries and their monuments. She founded the Ohio Chapter and is on the national board of directors."

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Thank you, Beth, for sharing your knoweldge of gravestone carvings with us!