Tinfoil Tricks

As we visited cemeteries, we quickly found that many of the old headstones are unreadable. I was tracing the letters with my fingers, trying to "feel" what they said, and we also tried doing a rubbing with crayons, but neither of these methods worked at all.
My genius husband, however, came up with the best plan. We bought some tinfoil and pressed it on the headstone. It was like a miracle! All of a sudden, you could see words where before there had only been discolored bumps and holes. We carried tinfoil around with us to every cemetery thereafter. Way to go, Jef!