Grave Undertakings Walking Tour
When:
Sunday, Jun 25, 2017 2:00p -
3:30p
Sunday, Jun 25, 2017 2:00p -
3:30p
Where:
King's Chapel
58 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108
Admission:
$15
Categories:
< 21, Lectures & Conferences, Sports & Active Life
Event website:
http://www.bostonbyfoot.org/tours/Grave-Undertakings
Explore three of downtown Boston's burying grounds and learn about the customs surrounding death and dying in Puritan New England. Dig deeper into the religious views, practices, symbolism, and traditions of death in Boston.
Beginning at King's Chapel Burying Ground, this tour will lift the veil of mystery surrounding gravestone art and how styles of gravestones changed over the years, how the poor were buried when there wasn’t room for a potter’s field, how the evolution of small, haphazardly laid out graveyards to modern-day suburban cemeteries was spearheaded in the Boston area.
Please contact Boston By Foot at 617.367.2345 or [email protected] with any questions.
