Historic cemeteries are among New England’s most surprising cultural landscapes. Far from the macabre, these sites were “designed as a tranquil, natural setting … to inspire and comfort the living,” ...
More than 70 cemeteries across New England have started offering natural burials in recent years, including Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier. That’s where bodies can decompose underground, without ...
In New England's historic cemeteries, the grave markers themselves are perhaps just as interesting as the people who lie beneath them. Around each corner lurk skulls with wings, weeping willows and ...
When it comes to burying our dead, humans have been all manner of pragmatic, solicitous and judgmental. Our ever-changing feelings about death have certainly affected the shapes burials have taken ...
An archaeologist examines a beheaded body found at an ancient Roman cemetery in England. HS2/PA Archaeologists in England have unearthed 40 beheaded skeletons at an ancient Roman burial site, while ...
HERMIT: THE MYSTERIOUS LIFE OF JIM WHYTE, by Jeffrey H. Ryan; Maine Authors Publishing, 2019; 153 pages, $17.95 Most folks recall the splashy headlines about the North Pond Hermit a few years ago, but ...
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