Question

What does Slater study when he investigates colonial graveyards

Answer 1

James A. Slater. The Colonial Burying Grounds of Eastern Connecticut and the Men Who Made Them. Vol. ⅩⅪ of Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, July 1987. Photographs by Daniel and Jessie Lie Farber. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press, Inc., 1987. 326 pp. Cloth US $65, ISBN 0-20802-160-4.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

This long-awaited publication by one of the most respected gravestone scholars of New England derives its title from the classic 1927 study Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them 1653-1800 by Harriet Merrifield Forbes.1 Dr. Slater has dedicated his book to the memory of Mrs. Forbes, and to the memory of Ernest Caulfield, whose pioneering work in the study of Connecticut gravestones was published in twelve installments in the Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin between 1951 and 1967.2 Slater mentions in his introduction that the Society allowed him custody of Dr. Caulfield's unpublished manuscripts and papers, without which "this work could not have been accomplished." Certainly this is the most comprehensive publication on Connecticut gravestone carvers and burial grounds yet available.