Karen Metros of Dracut and her twin brother Robert Haines of Lowell, do raking and pruning at the grave of their parents Robert and Elinor Haines at Tewksbury Cemetery, on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. Robert, Sr., and Jimmy Kane, buried in the adjacent plot, were both Tewksbury police officers, along with some others buried nearby. (SUN/Julia Malakie)
Julia Malakie is a photojournalist who graduated from MIT, has an MBA from University of Chicago, and began a second career in photography at Syracuse University and AP Boston. She loves politics and trees, and will try to fix your mulch volcanoes.