This research guide contains a number of resources to help you find the information you need for this assignment. You will want to refer to your assignment document for all the details, but your initial research should include:
- Person(s) referenced on the stone
- Family associated with the stone
- Any relevant information that helps us better understand the time period of the person associated with the stone.
There are also resources to help you speak to some of the bigger goals of the project.
- How do gravestone styles change over time?
- How can these changes in style allow us to understand evolving religious thought in early Milton?
- Can we use this data to understand broader theoretical patterns of the change of material culture?
- What is the meaning of the graphic imagery and poetic epitaphs on colonial gravestones?
- What can we do to preserve these cultural resources for the future while making them more accessible to the public?
