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Out on a Limb: Grave Error
6/1/2006
Don't shave years off a tombstone's life.

It's inevitable. Every time we publish an article about cemeteries in Family Tree Magazine, a well-intentioned reader sends us a letter to extol the virtues of shaving cream as a tombstone cleaner.

The latest note came in response to our February 2006 All in the Family prompt. Along with a bevy of gut-busting gravestone photos, we received the following clipping from the Shenandoah Valley, Va., Daily News Record:

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