Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Douglas L. Winiarski

In graveyards across New England, hopeful images of smiling faces, hearts, and cherubs appeared alongside, within, or, occasionally, supplanted the classic winged skull motif that had dominated late-seventeenth-century funerary iconography.