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Is “the pen is mightier than the sword?” Perhaps, but more than a few newspaper editors in the Wild California West bit the bullet over their bellicose words.

Getting in the spirit

  Did You Know…?   Hamden Holmes Noble, the founder of Cypress Lawn was mindful that one of the most haunting fears of families during the Victorian era was the […]

How much do you really know about your favorite Memorial Park?

If a lady ever deserved to be called “hot,” it was “Firebelle Lil.”

Imagine this. Your father is one of the wealthiest men in America. You’re twenty-five and madly in love. Said father says: “That woman is only interested in my money, not […]

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. ~ Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist

    There are no fifty acres in the world more angelic than the East side of Cypress Lawn Memorial Park. What is even more remarkable is that with few […]

Beach Blanket Babylon has been running continuously to sold-out audiences in San Francisco since June 1974. That earns it the distinction of the longest running musical revue in theatre history. […]

There are many winemakers at rest at Cypress Lawn, but only one revels in the legendary glory of the grape.