Handbook Of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts: Its History, Its Famous Dead, And Its Quaint Epitaphs (9789354448911)

High above Plymouth harbour, on a wind-swept hill of slate and salt air, lies a whole town's memory carved in stone. These stones still speak today. Frank Herman Perkins' "Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts" is a classic historic cemetery guidebook to the Plymouth Massachusetts cemetery where so much of Plymouth burial ground history is preserved, from seventeenth century burials of early settlers to the resting places of later generations. In clear, unhurried prose, Perkins walks the reader row by row among the headstones, identifying the famous dead of plymouth alongside lesser-known townsfolk and sailors, and recording their words before time can erase them. His painstaking epitaphs and inscriptions collection captures colonial gravestone inscriptions and later stones alike, turning the hillside into a quiet archive of faith, loss, humour, and local character, invaluable for new england cemetery studies. Short historical sketches, notes on families, and passing remarks on changing new england burial customs make this an indispensable genealogy research reference book and a treasure for local history buffs interested in every corner of this remarkable place. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this complete old burial hill handbook is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure - it preserves an irreplaceable record of one New England community and the ways it chose to remember its dead, offering pleasure to the casual reader and lasting value to historians, genealogists, and serious collectors alike.

Author:

Frank Herman Perkins

Publisher:

Alpha Edition

Publication Date:

March 05, 2021

Number of pages:

68 pages

Language:

English

Binding:

Paperback

ISBN-10:

9354448917

ISBN-13:

9789354448911