It's easy to focus on the deaths of the residents of each cemetery where we work and end up in a mournful cycle of sorrow when we learn of their lives of love and loss.  This is especially true when we encounter graves topped with small lambs.  However, many of these people lived full lives and even contributed to the well-established history of our locale.  It's not uncommon to learn that a person is robustly documented as a veteran of the American Revolution, the Civil War, was a British Loyalist, or was the town troublemaker. 

This section of our page is not dedicated to gravestone restoration work.  It is dedicated to the families whose memorials we've cared for.  It points to the family recipes - including those for beer, wine, whisky, and all manner of moonshine - that have been handed down from generation to generation and are sometimes lost along the way.  It points to the places where people spent their time, including the pubs, taverns, and inns of old New England and beyond, some of which are still standing and some not.  It tells the stories of our cousins, both close in DNA and distant, because every life is important and some of them are wildly interesting!  Finally, because we learn every day, it gratefully acknowledges the work of other researchers by pointing in their direction when they've already done the work that leads us to broaden our knowledge.