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Dying Matters Awareness Week Starts May 13 in the U.K.

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Gail Rubin | 0 Comments

Every year in May, Dying Matters Awareness Week takes place in the United Kingdom and Wales. The week of activities get people talking about dying, death and bereavement, and places the topic front and center… Read More→

Memorial Day Stories at Sunset Memorial Park

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Gail Rubin | 3 Comments

For Memorial Day 2017, Sunset Memorial Park here in Albuquerque, New Mexico hosted a unique storytelling event honoring those U.S. servicemen and women who died in wars. The storytellers were actors who looked like green toy… Read More→

New Mexico Baby Boomers Now Have a Natural Burial Ground

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Gail Rubin | 1 Comments

Green burial in New Mexico has been a long time coming. Actually, given the state’s high desert dry climate, it’s really brown burial – so let’s call it natural burial. The prospect of natural burial… Read More→

The Great Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Grave

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Gail Rubin | 2 Comments

The grave of renowned 20th century novelist F. Scott (Francis Scott Key) Fitzgerald is located the middle of Rockville, Maryland, right next to St. Mary’s Catholic Church. The historic church and its graveyard were dedicated… Read More→

The Newlywed Game Turns 50 Today!

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Gail Rubin | 0 Comments

On this day in history, July 11, 1966, the TV game show The Newlywed Game premiered on ABC-TV. It was hosted by Bob Eubanks, who at the age of 28 was the youngest game show… Read More→

Live Long and Prosper: Star Ship Enterprise Featured in Smithsonian

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Gail Rubin | 0 Comments

The original Star Trek spaceship Enterprise is now enshrined in the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum’s main Hall of Flight. The 11-foot long model of the ship from the original TV series, last remodeled in… Read More→

A Real Jaguar Hearse Inspired by ‘Harold and Maude’

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Gail Rubin | 3 Comments

All I want for Christmas is the Jaguar hearse featured in the 1971 cult classic film, Harold and Maude. And a real one exists! The movie Harold and Maude is a quirky, unlikely love story…. Read More→

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Dying Matters Awareness Week Starts May 13 in the U.K.

Memorial Day Stories at Sunset Memorial Park

New Mexico Baby Boomers Now Have a Natural Burial Ground

The Great Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Grave

The Newlywed Game Turns 50 Today!

Live Long and Prosper: Star Ship Enterprise Featured in Smithsonian

A Real Jaguar Hearse Inspired by ‘Harold and Maude’

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