On out way up to Maine to visit Jon at the end of July, Jeremy and I made an unexpected stop in the town of Bennington, Vermont, where we happened upon an old chuch and cemetery. Little did we know that we would be looking at the graves of Revolutionary war soliders.
Early American gravestones are considered one of the first forms of American folk art and have a rather distinct look, tall and thin, and are riddled with motifes of angles, arrow, birds, trees, hour-glasses, skulls and winged faces, which are thought to be representative to the one that is buried there. Pretty col, huh?
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