This 90 minute ‘virtual tour’ chronicles New England cemetery art, history, and symbolism, from colonial burial grounds, through the rural cemetery movement of the 19th century and into 21st-century locations.

Why do we have cemeteries and gravestones?

Why they look the way they do?

How have styles and art evolved over 400 years?

The Gravestone Girls scoured Belchertown’s graveyards, taking photos to illustrate the presentation with as much local content as possible.

This program is funded by the Friends of the Library.