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Our First Christmas
It had been three months since the big stock market crash on Black Monday, October 29, 1929. Things were tense around our town since then […] Read More -
Distinguished Resident – Jimmy Stewart – It’s a Wonderful Life
“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. And when he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” One […] Read More -
Distinguished Resident – Bob Baker: Puppet Master
“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.” – Jon Bon Jovi History is […] Read More -
Forest Lawn Promise
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford Since we each began to talk and socialize with […] Read More -
Funeral Potatoes
“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” – Alan D. Wolfelt For humans to survive, we need water, air, shelter, and food. Of […] Read More -
The 70 Year Journey of the Forest Lawn Museum
Forest Lawn shall become… a place where artists study and sketch; where schoolteachers bring happy children to see the things they read of in books…” […] Read More -
National Back to School Month
No more pencils, no more books No more teachers, dirty looks Out for summer, out ’til fall We might not come back at all. School’s […] Read More -
What Death Taught Me
“Mostly it is loss that teaches us about the worth of things” – Arthur Schopenhauer Losing someone we love is never easy. The following […] Read More -
The Write Stuff
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton Most of us grew up hearing about and learning the important “3 R’s” of education—reading, […] Read More -
Church of Our Heritage
“Forest Lawn shall become a place…where little churches invite, triumphant in the knowledge that from their pulpits only words of love can be spoken…” —The […] Read More
