A sign is posted leading hikers to a hill in Altadena that holds the grave of Owen Brown, the son of the abolitionist John Brown. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in ...

Some of my mother’s earliest memories are of scrubbing chalk onto paper pressed into the ridges of old headstones. While ...

Words are one of the many forms through which we honor the deceased. Epitaphs come in all sorts of formats, depending on the ...

On a hill above Altadena named Little Round Top, a grave stood for 136 years as the community below it blossomed. Here lay the remains of Owen Brown, son of the legendary abolitionist John Brown. Owen ...