Tombstone Tuesday: A girl's 1961 diary documents gravestone inscriptions
Putney, Vermont, Summer 1961. I'm 9 years old. My cousin Susan is visiting us at our home on River Road. One day, an exploration takes us across the field to the south of our house, down the hill to Sackett's Brook in the gully, and up the other side. There we discover an old family graveyard in the meadow across the road from the "Baldwin place". We immediately feel the spirits of the dead, and are intrigued by the inscriptions and dates. Next day, we return to the graveyard