Day Trips: Fairfield Lake State Park, Freestone County
Sad news with state park’s closure due to development
"...The rolling hills are covered in old-growth hardwood and evergreen trees shading more than 26 miles of hiking and..."
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March 3, 2023 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
PARDon Me
"...in charge of the cemeteries any longer. [“Opinion: Flawed Cemetery Rules Process Violates City Council Resolution and Betrays Public..."
Nov. 15, 2022 Postmarks
"You Can't Stay Here": Austin's Unhoused Population Faces an Uncertain Future
Council, police, and providers confront camp challenge
"...St. in his District 3 – the site of Evergreen Cemetery...."
May 21, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders
Austin at Large: The Way We Got Here
On the journey to today’s Austin, Ron Davis helped make the road by walking
"...at 11am at Mt. Olive, followed by burial at Evergreen Cemetery. COVID-19 protocols will be observed...."
Feb. 12, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
We Have an Issue: Welcome to the Stress Issue
Also, we bid farewell to Art Director Jason Stout
"...and Jana Birchum's images from Sunday's community celebration of Evergreen Cemetery, a historically Black cemetery in East Austin, after..."
Oct. 2, 2020 Column by Kimberley Jones
Celebration of Evergreen Cemetery
"...leaders and organizations gathered Sunday, Sept. 27, to celebrate Evergreen Cemetery, a historically Black cemetery at the corner of..."
Sept. 29, 2020 Photo Gallery
Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods
The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography
"...12th abode once stood, in a nondescript corner of Evergreen Cemetery, Dorham lies close to his parents...."
Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman
The City Needs Gravediggers, Too
PARD's long, hot summer with interment services
"...has five working, city-run cemeteries – Oakwood, Oakwood Annex, Evergreen, and Plummers in East Austin, and the largest, Austin..."
Aug. 24, 2018 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
A Celebration of Austin’s Black Cemeteries
Cemetery tour to help re-discover Austin’s lost black history
"...Even in sunshine, a particular shadow hovers over Bethany Cemetery, located along Springdale near 12th Street, in front of..."
Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman
Cemetery Master Plan Inches Closer to Life
Boards & commissions pass graveyard draft
"...graveyards within city limits – Oakwood, Oakwood Annex, Plummers, Evergreen, and Austin Memorial Park – the document is both..."
July 3, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
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 killed..."
Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
The Five Austin Public Cemeteries
"...Precise date unknown, but likely 1898 as a folk cemetery..."
Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature
Day Trips
Humor abounds in this Parisian town
"...In Paris' Evergreen Cemetery, Willet Babcock's grave is marked with a statue..."
Oct. 5, 2012 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
City of the Dead
Journeying through the graves of Austin's oldest cemetery
"...corpse by wagon over to what is now Oakwood Cemetery. The horses would trot up either to the north..."
April 21, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith
Grave Matters
The Cost of the Longest Vacation You'll Ever Take
"...nicest bone orchards in Austin is the Texas State Cemetery on East Seventh and Navasota -- a beautiful wooded..."
March 28, 1997 News Feature by Karl Pallmeyer
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
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