Gravestone Girls

[Matusalem]

http://www.gravestonegirls.com/

A couple of fine young lasses cast headstones from cemetaries around new England. Skulls&bones, etc from colonial era.

[pyrateleather]

That's some really cool stuff! I wanted to do rubbings when I was visiting Boston & Salem but it is frowned upon understandably. Looks like they have found a safe technique.

[Hester]

I love graveyards!

I particularly enjoyed the Unitarian one in Chelmsford, Mass., (while on a business trip to "Boston") which is where I first saw the winged skull motif on 17th C. tombstones.

And hey, look, the town has a job opening for a "Temporary Cemetery Laborer":

http://www.townofchelmsford.us/Employment.cfm

Saw the winged skull motif again on some 19th C. headstones in Northants, [Old] England, too.

My best tip for traipsing around old graveyards -- wear wellies! Otherwise, the dew on the often uncut grass will soak you to the knees! [Which makes you somewhat less than welcome for Sunday dinner at the local pub.]

Never can find tombstones of any of my ancestors. I suspect all they could afford was a little wooden cross (if that).

Cheers, Hester