Chichester-based Bay Woodworking is his major business, but it is The Down to Earth Coffin Company that generates the curiosity of reporters and, well, potential customers. Even Hale admits that it’s ...

They already had made several caskets by request, so the monastery took a decision to invest in woodworking tools and go into caskets whole hog.

The caskets are made at Kyle's shop in Black Hawk from wood harvested locally. He buys his pine from a company in Custer and also makes a cedar casket from wood out of Newell.

Caskets were loaded on a trailer in downtown Houston, bound for Baton Rouge. The man who made them says they are more than just boxes, they are specially made for officers Montrell Jackson, Brad ...

History: Saint Meinrad Archabbey, a Catholic Benedictine monastery, was founded in 1854 in Spencer County by monks from Einsiedeln Abbey in Switzerland.

Vern Lecy can afford to buy whatever casket he wants. And what the 79-year-old Korean War veteran wants is a casket made by veterans, for veterans. Lecy is near the end of a two-year battle with ...