Opinion: Flawed Cemetery Rules Process Violates City Council Resolution and Betrays Public Trust

The Austin Parks and Recreation Department is trying to force new rules that could result in the desecration of hundreds of graves

"...Shoshana, died suddenly of myocarditis and was buried in Austin Memorial Park (AMP). While visiting her daughter's grave, my..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Column by Sharon Weintraub

Cemetery Master Plan Inches Closer to Life

Boards & commissions pass graveyard draft

"...Austin's cemeteries are one step closer to securing their future,..."

July 3, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dying Guide to Austin

"...CemeteryBurial SpaceMausoleum NicheSpace for Cremains Austin Memorial Park$950n/a$150* Evergreen$770n/a$150* Assumption..."

March 28, 1997 News Feature

The Five Austin Public Cemeteries

"...of Texas; Andrew Jackson Zilker (1858–1934), innovator of Zilker Park. Plummers..."

Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature

Differences Between Cemetery and Park

"...on Aug. 23, 2007, to rent a historic city cemetery, Austin Memorial Park, to a special-interest group so that..."

May 3, 2008 Postmarks

Cemetery Troubles

"...feel the need to add to recent submissions regarding Austin’s cemeteries. My family was devastated by the death of..."

Nov. 21, 2022 Postmarks

Day Trips: 9/11 Flight Crew Memorial, Grapevine

Poignant monument pays tribute to those who lost their lives

"...The 9/11 Flight Crew Memorial in Grapevine remembers the 33 airline employees, 71 law..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin's Waterloo

Taking a Walk along Waller

"...It's a creek, it's a park, it's a drainage ditch, it's an eyesore. It's a..."

July 7, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City of the Dead

Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery

"...Used to be that when a pauper died in Austin, the city would send for an undertaker, and the..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

I’ll Be Here to Lay Down Beside You

An Austin widower’s take on coping with loss

"...It’s 9am on a Thursday at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, in the northwest of the city...."

Oct. 11, 2024 Features Feature by Jonah Lemm

In Memoriam: Jennifer Bourianoff

ASO's longtime Assistant Concertmaster has passed away.

"...The Austin Symphony Orchestra has lost a longtime member of its..."

Dec. 29, 2011 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Death Waits for No Plan

Austin works on making its cemeteries more accessible to the public

"...Two of the first men buried in an Austin cemetery – or so the story goes – were..."

Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Not in My Graveyard: RAMP vs. Covenant Presbyterian

One woman's battle with a church to preserve a Central Austin cemetery

"...strange foes – like, say, a church and a cemetery...."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Laurel Chesky

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, April 22-29

"...Eckhardt keynotes this evening of all things green. 5:30-8:30pm. Austin Community College Eastview Campus, 3401 Webberville Rd. www.tinyurl.com/yaeppka...."

April 23, 2010 News Feature

Article Was Fair, but RAMP Isn't

"...However, I feel Sharon Blythe’s portrayal of the Rescue Austin Memorial Park Cemetery organization is very misleading. Her organization..."

Dec. 3, 2008 Postmarks

Walking on the Water

Running hot or cold on the boardwalk

"...starting west of the freeway and heading to Lakeshore Park east of I-35 – the path runs over land..."

March 13, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Grave Matters

The Cost of the Longest Vacation You'll Ever Take

"...Much has been written about Austin's high real estate prices, but dollar for dollar, it's..."

March 28, 1997 News Feature by Karl Pallmeyer

Day Trips: Sam Houston's Grave, Huntsville

Monument to first president of the Texas Republic is part of cemetery's art gallery

"...Sam Houston's grave and memorial in Huntsville's Oakwood Cemetery honors the man who was..."

July 8, 2016 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The City Needs Gravediggers, Too

PARD's long, hot summer with interment services

"...Want to be a gravedigger? Austin faces a very real possibility of not having anyone..."

Aug. 24, 2018 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

St. Mary's Grotto in Windthorst isn't your normal piece of modern sculpture

"...bridges, fountains, benches, and lampposts in San Antonio's Brackenridge Park, Rodriguez is known to have produced several small grottos..."

June 4, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Welcome to Texasland

Bob Bullock's final monument to himself, the Texas State History Museum, won't have many historical documents, but it promises to be entertaining.

"...Bullock attended a funeral out at the Texas State Cemetery just north of Seventh Street in East Austin. Bullock..."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Bill Crawford

Death Be Not Cheap

Austin's Largest Death Care Provider May Not Provide Best Deal

"...The biggest funeral provider in Austin is Cook-Walden; it dominates the "death care" business in..."

March 28, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Day Trips

"...The International Sculpture Park on the grounds of Liberty Hill High School exudes..."

July 31, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...Every year in the "Best of Austin" issue I take the opportunity to point out some..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Happenings

Oct. 25-31

"...For more events, see Community Listings. THURSDAY 25..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Feature

Day Trips

"...The Whitehead Memorial Museum captures the spirit of Del Rio in a..."

May 31, 2002 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips: Statues of Texas Women

A list of Texas women who stand tall

"...the Spanish as a guide and interpreter. She is memorialized outside the Lufkin Convention Center in the county that..."

March 6, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Whole Lotta Lava Going On

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks

"...king, Steven Spielberg, has already laid claim to the Memorial Day holiday -- the traditional start of the summer..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Happenings

Friday, March 2 - Wednesday, March 7

"...For more details on the following, and other events..."

March 2, 2007 News Feature

What's Old Is Green Again

Eco-friendly, home-based funerals recall a bygone era

"...lay in state in the garage of her East Austin home. King was hosting a gathering to demonstrate the..."

April 22, 2011 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

1   2     NEXT ›    2 »