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Preachers, Patriots & Plain Folks: Boston's Burying Ground Guide to King's Chapel, Granary and Central Cemeteries
This highly readable book details Boston's three important downtown cemeteries: King's Chapel, Granary, and Central. It discusses the meaning of the gravestone carvings and includes stories about Revolutionary patriots Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Hancock,and Boston Tea party members and war dead. Also poet Phillis Wheatley, John Winthrop, the father of Boston; artist G...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
June 1st 2004
by Chauncey Park Press
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This useful guide to touring the colonial burying grounds of downtown Boston explains the symbology of the gravestones and the histories of the graveyards. It contains capsule biographies of important personages, illustrated by some small black-and-white photographs, and includes a pull-out map with all the remaining gravestones numbered.
It also holds over a hundred pages of gravestone inventories -- and lists the missing gravestones -- from the three downtown graveyards. It's all important info...more
It also holds over a hundred pages of gravestone inventories -- and lists the missing gravestones -- from the three downtown graveyards. It's all important info...more
Nice factoids although lacked a solid academic writing structure.
Decent guide to Boston's burial grounds, but a fairly boring sit-down read.
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