Historic Newton will host a tour of Newton’s oldest burying ground – East Parish Burying Ground (Centre and Cotton Streets) on Sunday, November 2 from 1-2PM.
Learn about a significant collection of colonial-era headstones, funerary customs in New England, gravestone art, along with changing attitudes toward death and remembrance, from the pre-Revolutionary era through the Early Republic.
Tours are $10 for members and $15 for non-members. Space is limited. Registration is required.
This is the first of a two-part series of walking tours by Historic Newton. The second is Mourning and Memory at Newton Cemetery, November 9.
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