Memories
Handling Granite Headstones
Sometimes we forget that just because granite has such incredible durability it is still vulnerable to certain types of damage. It is very hard (somewhere around 6 on the Measures Of Hardness Scale and just below quartz at 7) and therefore it is also quite brittle. Anything that bumps against the sharp corners or edges of your granite headstone can take...
Karl Erik Bennett Memorial Karl was autistic/savant and was a master at assembling all kinds of puzzles. All the pieces in the design were drawn to fit together and they represent Karl’s uniqueness. On each piece are the things Karl loved: weight lifting, prime numbers (1009 & 967), building things, playing the guitar and...
Tombstone Tour 2009
Part 1 Taipei
Our Headstone, Monument and Memorial tour through Asia began in Taipei, Taiwan in late February of this year. Fellow travelers John Provines, AICA and Leland Longstreth, AICA met me at the Narita Airport in Japan where we caught a flight to Taipei. After the 10+ hour flight to Narita the 4 hour flight to Taiwan was a breeze for me.
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We arrived in Manila, and were excited to tour the Philippine and Filipino memorials, monuments and Philippine and Filipino headstones. Manila, only about 750 miles by air away from Taipei is much warmer and also more humid. The Philippine Islands are comprised of over 7,000 islands and are home to several ethnic groups. The original inhabitants settled via land bridges from Asia over 30,...
Now the Headstone, Monument and Memorial tour through Asia heads to Vietnam. We are excited to see Vietnamese monuments, headstones and memorials and view custom Vietnamese headstones and monuments. Ho Chi Minh City is the largest Metro area in Vietnam. There are about 9 million people in this rapidly growing city and projections are that by 2020 there will be 20 million people living there...
Continuing on in the Vietnamese cemetery, touring Vietnamese headstones, memorials and monuments we wish to share some of the spectacular memorials here outside of Ho Chi Minh City.
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Located outside of town on our Asian headstone tour in Vietnam is a headstone memorial and headstone monument shop. We were given a great tour of a Vietnamese cemetery featuring wonderful photos of headstone memorials we can share.
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