There are places for our dead.

Places of peace and I not dread.

Sites of simple or elaborate stones that memorialize our lost one's bones welcome to stones and bones oh oh welcome to Stones and Bones.

Hello, you Sputacular People.

Welcome to Stones and Bones number seven.

I am your host, Diane.

And this is Kelly.

Kelly, on this episode, we're going to be talking about

ye old burying grounds. All right. On this, Stones and Bones, we are focusing specifically on the cemeteries that named themselves

Old Burying Ground. These old burying grounds offer a snapshot of what life was like during the colonial

period in America, and they don't use the term cemetery in the name because the term wasn't in use yet.

Garden cemeteries were a couple hundred years away from being planned, so many of these cities of the

dead are haphazard and wild. And they were never considered hallowed, but rather common.

Many of them are filled with notable people from American history. Let's look at a few of them.

We're going to head to Cambridge first. The old burying ground here is located across the street from Harvard Yard and was founded in 1635 at the edge of Cambridge Common.

Little fun fact, Kelly, Harvard Yard has that yard in the name because this was once a cow yard.

Oh.

So, you know, you've got all those Ivy Lakers who are going to Harvard.

Now you're going to say, are you stepping in cow patties while you're doing it?

Are you bleak kickers?

Sheasle kickers?

Moot. This was part of a new European settlement that was called Newtown, and it had an E at the end of that,

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