Wearing my cemetery shirt today. Shout out to the Canterbury CT Historical Society for the excellent merch!

#31DaysofGraves - Day 31 - Memento Mori Old Abington Burying Grounds, Pomfret, Connecticut, USA Thank you all for sharing your photos! And huge thanks to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for putting this together every year 🙏🏻 Happy Halloween 🎃

#31DaysofGraves - Day 30 - Color South Cemetery, Pomfret, Connecticut, USA

#31DaysofGraves - Day 29 - Occupation Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen, Denmark

#31DaysofGraves - Day 28 - Column Forest Home Cemetery & Arboretum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Columns on the cenotaph of beer baron Joseph Schlitz, who died in a shipwreck off the Isles of Scilly in 1875.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 27 - Tree Blanchard Cemetery, Guilford, Vermont, USA A tree for Patience Balch, d. 1798. If you look closely, you’ll see a dotted line where one of the leaves is falling.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 26 - Figure Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen, Denmark A striking figure on the gravestone of veterinary pioneer Peter Christian Abildgaard. I think she may be Artemis of Ephesus.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 25 - Graveside Ornament Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen, Denmark A stick for the dog. I’m on a bit of a streak of photos from Assistens — tomorrow will be from there too. Highly recommend it: www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/p...

#31DaysofGraves - Day 24 - Unique Animal Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen, Denmark It looks to me like this gentleman was a physician, so perhaps the snake is a take on the Rod of Asclepius?

#31DaysofGraves - Day 23 - Cross Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen, Denmark

#31DaysofGraves - Day 22 - Landscape Maxham Cemetery, Hancock, Vermont, USA This small fieldstone cemetery on the side of a mountain road is the resting place of Jabez Maxham d. 1875, Martha Vaughn Maxham d. 1872, “and daughters”.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 21 - Bronze Forest Home Cemetery & Arboretum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

#31DaysofGraves - Day 20 - Wreath Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, Connecticut, USA A wreath for Mary Ann Hill, “who was drowned by the upsetting of a boat” July 4, 1853.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 19 - Social Group Rogerene Cemetery, Ledyard, Connecticut, USA Down a path behind what is now a housing development is the fieldstone cemetery for the Rogerenes, a small anti-establishment religious sect known for causing a ruckus: connecticuthistory.org/the-rogerene...

#31DaysofGraves - Day 18 - Mistake Old Cemetery, Eastford, Connecticut, USA I find these spacing errors so endearing. This carver did a great job on the main inscription and just misjudged on the verse. I especially love the little ^ in “welcome”.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 17 - Relocated Westfield Cemetery, Danielson, Connecticut, USA Elizabeth Webb of Boston “She removed to this Place in 1774 on Account of that Place being in the Possession of the British Troops”

#31DaysofGraves - Day 16 - Obelisk Forest Home Cemetery & Arboretum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA A grove of trees and obelisks.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 15 - Damaged Long Society Meeting House Cemetery, Preston, Connecticut, USA

#31DaysofGraves - Day 14 - Inside Watts Cemetery Chapel, Compton, Surrey, England An absolutely stunning building designed by Mary Watts and completed with the help of the local community: www.wattsgallery.org.uk/visit/explor...

#31DaysofGraves - Day 13 - Skeleton Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts, USA A reclining skeleton with scythe on the gravestone of Elizabeth Ireland.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 12 - Notable Woman Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Sylvia Ardyn Boone was the first Black woman to receive tenure at Yale University: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_...

#31DaysofGraves - Day 11 - Military Avery-Morgan Burial Ground, Groton, Connecticut, USA Three local militia members who died in the American Revolution. The inscriptions got me thinking about the role of memorials in shaping national stories and identities. www.fortgriswold.org/the-battle-o...

#31DaysofGraves - Day 10 - Urn Hendee Cemetery, Woodstock, Vermont, USA Very hard to see — it was a gray winter day when I took the photo — but this carving shows a sun with a face, an urn, and a crescent moon with the words “an urn”. Link to a better photo in next post 1/

#31DaysofGraves - Day 9 - Hand Queens River Baptist Cemetery, South Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA I’ve seen a lot of gravestones with this finger pointing to heaven symbol, but I especially like this one because you can see the button on his shirt cuff.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 8 - Glass Common Burying Ground, Newport, Rhode Island, USA A scythe and hourglass motif on three stones.

#31DaysofGraves - Day 7 - Angel Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo, Uruguay

#31DaysofGraves - Day 6 - Gender Westminster Old Cemetery, Westminster, Vermont, USA Virtue names (Patience, Felicity, Mercy, etc) were a tradition started by the Puritans and some are still popular today (Grace), but 21st century me cringes at the idea of a woman named Silence

#31DaysofGraves - Day 5 - Bird Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen, Denmark

#31DaysofGraves - Day 4 - Languages Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville, Washington, USA An Irish-language headstone for Mary Barrett. For the story, see: www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty...

#31DaysofGraves - Day 3 - Tomb Laurel Glen Cemetery, Cuttingsville, Vermont, USA The Bowman Mausoleum. More info here: bowmanmansion.org

#31DaysofGraves - Day 2 - Nautical Robinson Burying Ground, Stonington, Connecticut, USA In memory of Franses (sic) W. Holmes “who died on his passage from Demarary [now Guyana] to this port June 6th 1801 in Lat 20 39N & Long 64W Aged 14 Years”

#31DaysofGraves - Day 1 - Flower South Cemetery, Brooklyn, Connecticut, USA