How Did the Diary of Samuel Sewall Survive?

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There's a book that samuel de champlain wrote about his trip to north americaas is called mithing voyages. He sailed across the atlantic over 20 times and founded quebec. We have maps of quebec city, and we have maps of an island called saint croi from like 16 13. It helps us people were wealthyaad t hav the money to record things properly. How were they even kept? Are there books that have survived in either municipal records or in churchyard records? Ye, so there they definitely are.

Bidding farewell to the sweetest and spookiest month, we traipse past graves with archeologist, conservator and Taphologist Robyn Lacy. What’s the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery? Is it wrong to picnic in one? And can tombstone scrubbing help the world and soothe your living soul? Plus, font trends on headstones, old-timey gravestone emojis, a coffin-within-a-coffin, the best epitaphs and knowing the difference between slate, marble, and granite monuments. To celebrate Halloween, stop by the cemetery gates to do zinckies with your best ghosties. (That will make sense later.)

Robyn S. Lacy’s website: spadeandthegrave.com

Follow her @graveyard_arch on Twitter and Instagram

Gravestone conservation info: blackcatcemeterypreservation.wordpress.com

A donation went to UNICEF Canada's COVID-19 vaccine initiative: https://www.unicef.ca/en/what-we-do/donate-to-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR2df-h92Svs5lURmjea4qsq-8P6xbeieDajBFbQPfkHvQYjNGHhPzOePJk

Halloween Scavenger Hunt info: https://www.talkdeath.com/talkdeath-halloween-cemetery-scavenger-hunt/