All Posts by Ryan Healy

The Legal Woes of the Casket-Making Monks

It turns out, the state of Louisiana is in bed with funeral directors. They’ve got a law on the books that allows ONLY funeral directors to sell “funeral merchandise.” So unless you’re a state-licensed funeral director, you’re SOL. The monks of St. Joseph Abbey didn’t know this when they started making simple wood caskets to […]

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Holy Hail, Batman!

6:30 p.m., June 6, 2012 That’s when the hail started coming down. It didn’t stop completely until 9:30 — 3 hours later. Most of the hail was about the size of a dime in diameter. Some pieces were as large as quarters. But it wasn’t the size of the hail that was so unusual… it […]

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