Terrace on 23rd – Construction Update
Terrace on 23rd UPDATE: CREMATION CAMPUS TAKING SHAPE But progress has been slow As we’ve indicated in previous issues of this newsletter the new Terrace on 23rd cremation campus is slated for completion this autumn. But while construction continues, progress seems agonizingly gradual due primarily to delay-inducing disruptions that…...
Terrace on 23rd – Where Meaningful Memorialization and Natural Beauty Meet
Terrace on 23rd Where Meaningful Memorialization and Natural Beauty Meet Over the past few months, we’ve discussed the new “cremation campus” at the Garden of the Twenty Third Psalm that will, for identification and location purposes, be known as the Terrace on 23rd. But before discussing this new campus,…...
Garden of 23rd Psalm
GARDEN OF 23RD PSALM Existing featured area to become The Terrace on 23rd In addition to the normal maintenance activities of mowing and trimming of the grounds, Arlington visitors will see a different kind of maintenance activity during this coming spring and summer. The existing platformed area next to Arlington…...
WMKV Spotlight on Pre-planning in the age of COVID
Listen in as Sheila Rutz , Family Care Advisor at The Arlington Memorial Gardens, sits down with George Zahn of WMKV radio to discuss pre-planning in the age of COVID including: Why Pre-Planning is the best gift you can give your family How to get started on Pre-planning your final…...
WMKV Spotlight on Pre-planning and Memorialization
Listen in as Marcia Ross, Family Care Advisor at The Arlington Memorial Gardens, sits down with George Zahn of WMKV radio to discuss pre-planning and memorialization including: Full-service accommodations that include everything from cremation to traditional burial services Why Pre-Planning is the best gift you can give your family How…...
The Arlington Celebration of Life Campus Update
CELEBRATION OF LIFE CAMPUS PREPARES FOR OPENING We’re getting close…very close! Unfortunately, at about the time that construction began to wind down in March – when most of the work had been completed – excepting the finishing touches, almost simultaneously the Coronavirus pandemic began dominating the news, and soon thereafter,…...
What’s Your Story?
As an organization providing a physical space fundamentally dedicated to remembrance, we believe that everyone has a story to tell and we provide an open invitation to “Tell it at Arlington.” Most of us are hard-wired with the impulse to be remembered after we’re gone – come on, admit it;…...
New Campus Responds to Social Churn
Like so much in human experience, time brings change. The rock band Journey may have phrased it most succinctly when they sang, “The wheel in the sky keeps on turning.” Instead of “turning” perhaps Journey should have used the lyrical “churning.” Society inexorably churns over time. Technology grows and evolves;…...
Who’s On First?
In 1999, Time gave the famous Abbot and Costello comedy routine, Who’s on First, it’s designation as the Best Comedy Sketch of the 20th Century. If you’ve never heard it, you should take a listen; but in a nutshell, it’s a hilarious parody of a conversation of double-talk and gobbledygook.…...
The Arlington Urn Return and Scatterday
Scatterday Facilitates Final Placement The Arlington companies, the Arlington Funeral Home and the Arlington Memorial Park created and then on Aug. 6 hosted the Great Urn Return & Scatterday. This unique event, conceived to focus on the need for permanent placement for what is thought to be thousands of cremated…...