Grave Encounters: Hudson Valley headstone design

Grave Encounters:  Hudson Valley Headstone Design

Virtual Program Hosted by the Time and the Valleys Museum

[Grahamsville, N.Y.]  –  Join the Time and the Valleys Museum for a virtual program on ZOOM: Grave Encounters:  Hudson Valley Headstone Design on Sunday, June 28, at 2 p.m. by researcher Marisa Hayes.  Ms.Hayes will present some of her research on headstone design in the Hudson Valley historic cemeteries,  focusing on headstone styles from the Colonial Period through the Civil War.

Headstones reflect the social identities and views of death held by historical peoples of the Hudson Valley.  Ms. Hayes compares Hudson Valley headstone patterns to the gravestone studies of Archaeologist James Deetz in New England, and discovers patterns that reveal culture, language, and heritage of the people who are buried in the Hudson Valley’s oldest cemeteries.

Admission is FREE and Virtual attendance is EASY.  Just email the Museum at info@timeandthevalleysmuseum.org to register, and you will receive a reply email invitation with information on how to log in to zoom.us for the talk. Please call 845 985-7700 or info@timeandthevalleysmuseum.org for more information.