Mass­a­chu­setts is rich in his­tory and old ceme­ter­ies. To visit and pho­to­graph the Old Bury­ing Grounds of Mass­a­chu­setts in Autumn is incred­i­ble. The old maple trees are huge and beau­ti­ful, with bright fall col­ors of yel­lows, oranges and reds. The last trip to Mass­a­chu­setts we went out look­ing for dead rel­a­tives for our geneal­ogy project. You see both my wife and  I have ances­tors in the area that date back to the first set­tlers of this great coun­try.  Find­ing grave stones of many of our ances­tors is a thrill and try­ing to imag­ine what life was like back then. I would like to sit down to din­ner with our ances­tors to visit with them to find out what they were like. The pho­tos in this gallery were shot in the town ceme­ter­ies of Ipswich, Har­vard, Shirley, Essex, Gro­ton, New­bury­port and Lex­ing­ton.  It’s a step back in time.  It’s a chance to under­stand what our Found­ing Father’s sac­ri­ficed for us.

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