Stone Poets: Headstone Epitaphs: Ruminations, Recollections & Farewells

Don Van Nostrand was born and raised in Southampton, NY. His interest in tombstone epitaphs began as a youth while strolling the many Pre- and Post-Revolutionary War graveyards that dot the landscape of the South Fork of Long Island. These cemeteries were the last resting places of the original settlers and their descendants from Lynn, Massachusetts who, in 1640, broke free of their colony in New England.

It was a reverse migration that found Mr. Van Nostrand relocating to Portsmouth, NH in ...