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PARADE MARSHAL: Pegee Malcolm practices her wave before leading the first-ever Apponaug Winter Fest parade as grand marshal. On Monday the City Council reappointed her to the Warwick Historical Cemeteries Commission that she chairs. (Warwick Beacon photo)
Where history rests
You wouldn’t imagine history could come alive in a cemetery until you talk with Pegee Malcolm. Malcolm is chair of both the Warwick Historic Cemeteries Commission and the Rhode Island … more
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At home again
Archie and Lulu Van Griffin, whose headstone was discovered in a closet at Brown University on Jan. 17, 2017 by Jack Wrenn, a PhD student at the time was recently moved by members of the Warwick … more
DIRECT HIT: Highland Memorial Park Cemetery in Johnston seems to have taken a direct hit by Friday morning's tornado. A path of destruction: fallen trees, scattered planters, grave markers dislodged and huge trees toppled. (Beacon photo by Rory Schuler)
We were never in Kansas in the first place
The twister churned the cemetery grounds, mixing earth and mighty trees and bending grave markers perpendicular to the souls interred beneath. The spinning winds struck Johnston where the town … more
VAN GRIFFIN HEADSTONE: The gravestone of Archie Van Griffin was in a closet in the basement of Sayles Hall on Brown University’s campus for decades until it was returned to Brayton Cemetery in Warwick in mid June. Currently, it rests on the earth in a shady spot by the grave of Bertha Griffin, a suspected relative. (Warwick Beacon photos by Dana Richie)
Tombstone in the closet: The discovery, relocation of the Archie Van Griffin headstone
Just after lunch on January 17, 2017, Jack Wrenn, a PhD student at the time, wandered around parts of Brown University’s campus where he “shouldn’t be” with his friend who … more
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NOT IN THE SCRIPT: It was an emotional moment for Brian Adenoid Guiot, a past unit commander of Sons of Union Veterans, a Major in the Varnum Continentals and a Scout for the Kingstown Reds, when he presented his sword to Paul Bourget, May 6 at the grave of General George Sears Greene in Apponaug. A reenactor, Bourget told of the Battle of Gettysburg where General Greene held Culps Hill against superior Confederate forces to save the Union Army. The event was staged as part of RI Historical Cemeteries Month that culminates with a scavenger hunt this Saturday at Brayton Cemetery (story on page 2). Guiot, who operates Guiot Monument and has done extensive restoration of the Greene cemetery and the general’s gravesite, said it is time for him to hand over his sword and for Bourget to have it. (Warwick Beacon photo)
General Greene visits, Saturday scavenger hunt all part of cemetery awareness month
He wore the Union blue wool jacket which was fully buttoned and sported two stars on the epaulets. Beneath a broad rimed hat with tassels, General George Sears Greene smiled widely. He moved to … more
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Cemeteries Commission arranges meeting with Civil War hero Sunday
One of the Union’s Civil War heroes who defended Culp’s Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg  from a far larger Confederate force, General George Sears Greene, will visit his tomb … more
Leaf it to the wind
A few scattered rain drops and a strong southerly wind didn’t stop members of the Warwick Historic Cemetery Commission from turning out in numbers last Saturday for the fall cleanup of Brayton … more
Pegee Malcolm chairs the Warwick Historical Cemeteries commission that overseas 166 Warwick historic cemeteries. (Warwick Beacon photo)
Memorialized
By ANNELISE DEMERS Cleaning up cemeteries might sound like the plot of a horror movie but to the nine members of the Warwick Historical Cemetery Commission, it’s a passion. “Most … more
A skeleton comes alive
Artena Fairbairn and Jena, Eiri and Darroch Fairbairn-Summers attended the Brayton Cemetery Scavenger Hunt on Saturday. This event was part of the RI Historical Cemeteries Awareness Weeks. Here they … more
POSITIONING: Peter Masse looks to position one of ten guardrails he and fellow Scouts -- along with the help of former Scouts, friends and parents -- erected Saturday to prevent people from parking in Warwick Historic Cemetery #9. (Warwick Beacon photos)
An Eagle’s project: Preserving sanctity of historical cemetery
When Sean Dunn, a member of the Save Sand Pond Association, started cutting the grass and cleaning up the litter collecting in the historical cemetery next to the pond, he voiced his annoyance at the … more
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NEWEST GRAVE: Brayton Cemetery became the final resting place of Robert Darigan who for decades helped cleanup the cemetery. He died in early 2020 and his grandson, Danny Hall, worked to have him buried at Brayton. Hall is now the driving force of semi-annual cemetery cleanups.
A spring tradition
A spring tradition The Warwick Historic Cemeteries Commission joined scores of volunteers Saturday for the spring cleanup of the Brayton Cemetery in Apponaug. It was a big scale effort made all the more possible by a roll off box provided by the city more
Remembering
Remembering The cemetery at City Park, where those who lived in the city's "poor farm" were buried was colorfully decorated this past weekend. (Warwick Beacon photo) more
A MEMORIAL TO FRIENDS: Danny Hall brushes off the memorial stone he had placed in a setting next to the grave of Robert Darigan in Brayton Cemetery. The memorial honors Darigan, Danny’s grandfather, and Emmett Reinhardt, who for about 30 years voluntarily maintained the cemetery.
Volunteers clean up cemetery, honor 2 friends who spent decades tending site
By JOHN HOWELL It wasn't easy work. The rain and wet snow from the night before was now ice and the leaves were frozen. But that didn't stop about 40 volunteers from fanning out with rakes, leaf blowers and their bare hands Sunday morning in the biggest more
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