On social media platforms, users have created online communities around the practice of cleaning gravesites. Audiences have become fascinated by the trend.
Volunteers took to Calvary Cemetary to clean the gravestones of Civil War veterans. Vietnam veteran Dennis Moore says that it is the least they could do for the heroes.
Heather Faries, vice president of Union Cemetery’s Historical Society, uses a hand-held sprayer to rinse a gravestone. Faries has hosted workshops for volunteers since the spring to help clean ...
She goes on to use a leaf blower, a vacuum cleaner and her own commercial hot pink cleaning solution on the gravestone and surrounding areas — which experts say could not just harm the stone ...