In 2002, when I began covering relocation of the Mason Cemetery, I never imagined that a year later I’d be in the Smithsonian Institution as the remains believed to be those of planter and Confederate soldier Isaac Newton Mason were examined by a team of experts in...
he relocation of a 19th-century cemetery is underway in Giles County to make way for the future. When Giles County began work on its Industrial Park South project, the Mason Cemetery was identified in an overgrown clump of trees on Amos Hamlett Road. Containing 22...
How I came to be present in the scientific research area of the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History when a 19th-century iron burial case was opened by a team of prominent scientists started as a routine story for the Citizen/Press.In covering the removal of the...
