Trip to Northeast USA October 2005       One of the few remaining authentically old sites is the cemetary.  It is interesting to see how the aesthetics changed from the late 1600s to the late 1700s, from skull or winged skull, crossbones, hourglass; to funerary urn under a willow tree.  The earliest tombstone we found was from 1683.  Some of the earlier stones were in amazingly good condition and some of the more recent (only 200 years old) were crumbling.  The biggest factor was the type of stone that was selected for the marker.             Created:  October 19, 2005 Updated:  September 21, 2006