LC Subject Heading: Death
Item 79283
William M. Spinney on death of wife, Freedom, 1842
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1842 Location: Freedom Media: Ink on paper
Item 15260
Letter concerning death of Henry Sewall, 1845
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1845 Location: Hallowell Media: Ink on paper
Lesson Plan
What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.
