OLLI-HIST-2251 - True Stories of New Hampshire’s Dead (America Through Time Series)

Course Description

From the seacoast to the White Mountains to the Great North Woods, New Hampshire burial grounds vary from urban park-like cemeteries to single lonely markers hidden deep in the woods. Tombstones tell fascinating stories of the past and may tell of heroic deeds or great tragedies. Personal histories become forgotten, but some survive in local lore. To create, "Buried New Hampshire” for Fonthill Media publishers, authors and photographers Rick Davidson and Bill Thompson spent a year researching legends, following clues, and photographing granite state cemeteries. Rick and Bill will share their evocative color photographs and intriguing research. Celebrities, murderers, heroes, and various unusual characters, some tragic, some inspiring come alive in their book and in this course. Some are well known; others lie in their final resting place shrouded in mystery.