Beyond the Gates: A Cemetery Explorer’s Guide to the Old Burying Ground of Groton, MA
Just off the main road going through Groton’s historic town center is the Old Burying Ground, where its citizens were buried since 1678, a period from which wooden markers sadly do not survive. Continue reading
Candle Lighting Service 2020
On the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2020 we gathered virtually for our most important annual tradition, the Candle Lighting Service. For the first time in 28 years, we were not able to be together in person at the Cemetery. Instead, … Continue reading
Beyond the Gates: A Cemetery Explorer’s Guide to Life Forest Conservation Cemetery
Something a little different for our readers today: tombstones turn into trees at a conservation cemetery founded in the year 2020 Continue reading
Beyond the Gates: A Cemetery Explorer’s Guide to Walton Cemetery in Pepperell, Massachusetts
The earliest graves show fearsome skulls with eye sockets bored deep, and soon ornate winged skulls give way to infant-like craniums flanked with crossbones and odd, swaddled faces. Continue reading