Anyone working on a family tree should plan to spend some time in Maine’s historic cemeteries. Finding the gravestone of a long-lost ancestor can be thrilling, but sometimes that stone reveals more than simply where a person was laid to rest. In this presentation rich with images from Maine, cemetery historian Ron Romano returns to Bangor to help attendees feel more enlightened as they search (and hopefully find!) grave sites and gravestones of their ancestors.
Ron Romano is author of four cemetery- and gravestone-themed books. He’s served as an officer on the board for the Association for Gravestone Studies, the leading organization in America for cemetery and gravestone studies. He is a long-standing trustee of the cemetery friends group for the 350-year-old Eastern Cemetery in his home town of Portland. Ron has designed cemetery tours for nearly twenty historic cemeteries and is a frequent lecturer on Maine’s early gravestones, cemeteries, and monumentmakers.