Author Talk: Nick Bellantoni (Virtual)

Author Talk: Nick Bellantoni 

Stone and brick tombs were repositories for the physical remains of many of Connecticut’s wealthiest and influential families. The desire to be interred within burial vaults, rather than have their wooden coffins laid into the earth in direct contact with crushing soil burden, led many prominent families to construct large above-ground and semi-subterranean tombs, usually burrowed into the sides of hills as places of interment for their dead.

Included are the tombs of Elisha Pitkin, Center Cemetery, East Hartford; Gershom Bulkeley, Ancient Burying Ground, Colchester; Samuel Huntington, Norwichtown Burying Ground, Norwich, Henry Chauncey, Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown; and, Edwin Denison Morgan, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford.

This presentation is based on the new book “And So The Tomb Remained” telling of the former state archaeologist’s investigations into five 18/19th century sepulchers while delving into family histories and genealogies, as well as archaeological and forensic sciences that helped identify the entombed.

You can purchase a copy of "And So The Tomb Remained" by Dr. Bellantoni at www.oxbowbooks.com.

Bio

Dr. Nicholas F. Bellantoni serves as the emeritus state archaeologist with the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History at the University of Connecticut. He received his doctorate in anthropology from UConn in 1987 and was shortly thereafter appointed state archaeologist. He also serves as an Adjunct Associate Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UConn, and is a former president of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut and the National Association of State Archeologists.

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