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Like the landscape paintings of famed French artist Claude Monet, this hand-colored 1935 photograph from Larsen Studio of the Provo City Cemetery comes to life; this once  monochromatic image of a nature scene was painted with washes of color and speckled with details to bring audiences vivid representations of landscapes that they may have experienced in real life. The colorist

Among the obelisks, monuments, and statues of the Salt Lake City Cemetery is a rather unusual headstone inscription: “Lilly E. Gray / June 6, 1881 – November 14, 1958 / Victim of the Beast 666.” The plot on the far northeastern side of the cemetery attracts visitors from all over, many on guided tours of the ghostly and paranormal. But

Three proposed general retention schedules were heard by the State Records Committee today. Each of these general schedules were previously posted on this blog for your input. The Cemetery Records schedule was approved, with the change in title to “Cemetery Management Records”. Burial Records was approved with no changes. Transitory Tracking Records was approved with the understanding that Appointed Records