09/24/2025
The “Gravestone Girls” will welcome the start of spooky season with a talk about the history of cemeteries, gravestone art, and burial customs featuring “Old Bridgewater’s” own cemeteries.
“Welcome to the Graveyard” is a 90 minute in-person “virtual tour” chronicling cemetery art, history and symbolism. From colonial New England burial grounds of the 1600’s and 1700s, through the nation-wide rural cemetery movement of the 19th century and into 21st century locations, the program examines why we have cemeteries and gravestones, why they look like they do and how styles and art have evolved over almost 400 years. The presentation is robust with photographs of original gravestones and burial grounds from cemeteries visited by Gravestone Girls over many years, including plenty of content from “Old Bridgewater’s” local haunts.
