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