A blow to cemetery tourism

Members of a New York cemetery board are distressed that the children of artist Mark Rothko want to relocate his remains.

The potential loss of the Rothko burial place “is a big deal,” said Nancy Poole, secretary-treasurer of the East Marion Cemetery Association. “He’s our only notable person...

"George Morton, the president of the East Marion Cemetery Association, said that in some ways he now regrets his decision to vote in favor of the exhumation.

“I knew nothing, really, about him,” he said of Rothko. “Since then, I’ve become more familiar. Now if we were to vote, I know my hand would go up to say, ‘Let’s leave him here.’ ”