Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the last Monday in May arrives, communities across the United States come together to commemorate Memorial Day, an occasion to ...

Earlier this summer at the Winningham family cemetery in Pickett County, Tennessee, Carolyn Massiongale conducted a master class for her three granddaughters. The tools at hand were a garden hoe, rake ...

In this photo from the Allen County Historical Society, county residents celebrate Decoration Day in the Public Square on May 30, 1888. By 1888, twenty years after America began observing Decoration ...

The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated war graves with blooming flowers. FILE - A member of the Army visits ...

Memorial Day was first observed in 1868 as “Decoration Day.” The Pioneer Cemetery holds 145 Civil War veterans’ graves. Observances are held across Lane County, with one of Oregon’s oldest in Eugene.

In 1985, Patterson Hood was about to flunk out of the University of North Alabama. He copped a gig writing album reviews for the college’s paper and enjoyed it because labels sent him a free LP every ...

The public is invited to attend Red Bank Cemetery’s second annual “Decoration Day” on Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to noon. Inspired by the annual Decoration Days that h ...