CONTENTS
SECTION I: CULTURAL INTERPRETATIONS
An Alternative to Panofskyism: New England Grave Stones and the European Folk Art Tradition
Lance R. MayerAspects of Music, Poetry, Stonecarving, and Death in Early New England
Allan I. Ludwig and David D. HallA Priest to the Temple
David H. WattersPuritan Attitudes toward Iconoclasm
Dickran TashjianColonial Long Island Grave Stones: Trade Network Indicators, 1670–1799
Gaynell S. Levine
SECTION II: STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL CARVERS
“J.W.” Folk Carver of Hants County, Nova Scotia
Deborah TraskThe Rockingham Stonecarvers: Patterns of Stylistic Concentration and Diffusion in the Upper Connecticut River Valley, 1790–1817
William N. Hosley, Jr.The Colonial Gravestone Carvings of John Hartshorne
James A. Slater and Ralph L. Tucker
Photographs by Daniel Farber
SECTION III: ABSTRACTS OF CONFERENCE PAPERS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abstracts of Conference Papers
Bibliography of Gravestone Studies
Notes on Contributors
Photo and Illustration Credits