Grave Secrets of the Green Moutains

You probably pass by your local cemetery every day—but did you know that the images carved into those stones contain secret messages? Vermont Book Award Winner and folklorist GennaRose Nethercott will teach you to crack the codes hidden in old New England gravestone art… plus discuss the elaborate, eccentric, and downright eerie burial practices Puritan New Englanders participated in while entombing their dead—from purple gloves to mirror magic. And as the final nail in the coffin? We’ll learn the true tales behind some of Vermont’s very strangest gravestones. Part of the 2027 Orwell & Shoreham Keynote Speakers Series.