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Vermont woman finds social media fame cleaning and researching gravestones

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Caitlin Abrams, a woman from Vermont, has turned her hobby of cleaning gravestones into a popular social media presence. She researches the lives of the individuals buried at the sites and shares their stories alongside videos of her cleaning the weathered headstones. This trend gained traction during the COVID-19 pandemic as people sought safe, engaging activities, though it has also drawn criticism regarding potential damage to historical sites and the motivations of some creators. AI

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Vermont woman finds social media fame cleaning and researching gravestones

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Kimberlee Kruesi, Amanda Swinhart, The Associated Press ·

    ‘It’s like journalism, but for dead people’: Meet the Vermont woman who turned a pandemic gravestone-cleaning hobby into a social media feed

    The trend was popular during the pandemic as people searched for safe hobbies, but some worry strangers are capitalizing on gravesites.

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