Skeletons and Spirits: The Culture of Death in 18th-Century Virginia

Skeletons and Spirits: The Culture of Death in 18th-Century Virginia

We’ll explore the rituals around death and mourning among early Americans.

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Eighteenth-century Virginians encountered death in many forms: headstones in their yards and churchyards, items of clothing, mourning rings on their fingers and funeral invitations, for example. Learn about the rituals around death and the objects that were part of the mourning process and memento mori from Katie McKinney, the Margaret Beck Pritchard Associate Curator of Maps and Prints at Colonial Williamsburg.

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