Today is a day you're supposed to celebrate your love for that special someone in your life. I'd like to take some time here to cel...

Bay Area hip hop legend Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks was born in Oakland, CA on July 5, 1970. At the age of 19 he released his first...

Click the picture for a larger version...But does anyone know what this epitaph may mean? It was just sitting there with nobody's name ...

Born a slave in 1844 Obediah Summers worked as a servant for a top soldier in the Confederate Army and in 1862 was captured by the Union. T...

I've been trying to take the time while I'm in a cemetery to stop and notice the small things. It seems that many times the things ...

I had to go to Hayward, CA the other day for a meeting and hadn't taken lunch. I decided I could eat or see what the nearest cemetery w...

"When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets." That is said to be the primary motto of the group known a...

As I was strolling through Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, CA the other day I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. Off in the dist...

I usually don't post on Monday but I've been going a little mad as of late. With the Christmas holiday approaching it's getting...

I generally try to stay away from the graves of little kids while it seems my girlfriend is drawn to them. My reason is little kids are sca...

On one of my many lunchtime excursions I had the opportunity to visit Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Hayward, California. This cemetery was est...

Claudia Killingsworth April 15, 1924 – September 20, 2009 The Bay Area has lost one of its’ hardest working icons. Claudia was well known wi...

Born in 1817 to an exotic foods importer and his young wife Domenico Ghirardelli became an apprentice for a local candy maker at an early ag...

Henry S. Crocker 1832-1904 Clara E. Crocker 1845-1910 In 1856 Henry founded the H.S. Crocker Company Printers. Promising to deliver the bes...

This image was originally meant for "Freaky Friday" but since I was busy with that thing that gets in the way of all things fun a....

This weeks "That Thing" is from Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Sebastapol, CA. I'm not sure how long the cross had been there b...

Most likely a victim of vandalism. This statue had 1 arm, 1 wing and no head. The pic was taken at St Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Oakl...