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Jemima Huntington, d. 1785. Spencertown, NY. Carved by Josiah Manning https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9254668/jemima_cary-huntington

John McGonigal, d. 1793. Hillsdale, NY. Carved by an unknown carver I’ve dubbed “the Cogwheel carver”; likely connected to William Holland. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/287777022/john-mcgonigal

Dr. William Austin, d. 1804. Hillsdale, NY. Carver unknown. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12239823/william_b-austin

Mary Chace, d. 1767. Hillsdale, NY. Carved by William Holland. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105281180/mary-chace

I love it when a book of gravestone inscriptions includes illustrations so detailed I can potentially ID the carver. More like this please!

From “OLD TOMBSTONES UNUSUAL
CEMETERIES IN COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK” by
Gerda E. Divine (1973)

I believe so. It matches his lettering in that era and the borders of several stones from around that date. Too bad it’s mostly been lost.

I’m all but certain this is the headstone of Mary “Sinckler” (as per the inscription records) based on the tiny remnant of lettering in the bottom right. The lettering also tells me this was made by William Young.

Vital records for Mary and William. Her stone was intact as of 1909 which this work was published.

His stone is still in better condition that his wife’s marker however:

Considering the ongoing loss of surface, I feel this stone should be removed, conserved, and replaced with a duplicate.

Coded as HF1021 in the Farber collection, I believe these “HF” images are from Forbes. Note the damage from mowers.

By the time Daniel Farber documented this stone, the right section had been lost.

The damage to the right side of the stone seems to have happened at some point between the Harriette Forbes photo (left) and the Daniel Farber photo (right). Forbes was active in early 20th century, Farber from 1960s to the 90s.

A mug of breakfast tea held triumphantly in front of an organized bookshelf.

Tea and an organized bookshelf?! Progress!

Sun Spots - Weird 8 | DriveThruRPG.com Boston, February 1926. In the midst of a cold winter storm, a prominent local banker hires the investigators to travel t

Today my Call of Cthulhu scenario "Sun Spots" is Deal of the Day on DTRPG. It was written in collaboration by gaming legend Keith 'Doc' Herber and contains dozens of illustrations by the amazing Reuben Dodd!

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YouTube video by JCH 007 Pete’s Dragon - Every Little Piece

‘Doc’ Terminus is the only Disney villain I root for.

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Did contemporary readers question Derleth’s claims of Lovecraft’s involvement regarding his “collaborations” with Lovecraft?

The party comes together and the investigation takes shape…

Benjamin Lovejoy (d. 1772) gravestone probably carved by William Holland. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38501158/benjamin-lovejoy

In a twist perhaps familiar to Call of Cthulhu players, a side investigation of mine has uncovered evidence that a gravestone carver though to have died in 1771 in Pennsylvania lived at least to 1778, perhaps longer, in New York State.

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YouTube video by Bill McClintock James Hetfield and the News - "Hip to Be the Sandman"

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As Sun Tzu wrote “Bang! Bang! pew pew pew! Yeehaw! Ka-boom!!!”

YouTube video by Vincent Price - Topic All Saints' Eve

My annual listen as October begins and Halloween beckons - “All Saints’ Eve” by Leah Bodine Drake (published by Arkham House in 1950) as read by Vincent Price. It’s like the essence of the season in 80 seconds:

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Some of those masks look familiar…

The Old Ways Podcast - Call of Cthulhu - The Queen of the Night - Part Two Detective Locke is awoken by a terrible phone call. Annie confesses to Charles about her experiences in the woods, as Catherine's class work at Miskatonic University turns up something strange.

Our Arkham series - The Queen of the Night - returns for part two! Join us for a terrifying phone call and so much more.

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Putting the Con into Panopticon

Chuck E. Cheese logo from late 1980s.

Why not Charles Ezekiel Cheese?

多喝阿華田?

Release day is here and our Queen of the Night is coming!

We hope you join us for this special tale. Huge thanks to @sentinelhillpress.bsky.social for requesting we take up this story! It's been great fun so far.

This egg nog wishes you a Happy Christmas

😄 It’s quite delicious (in moderation), I swear.

According to Clark Ashton Smith “a mass without head or members, spawning the grey, formless efts of the prime and the grisly prototypes of terrene life... And all earthly life, it is told, shall go back at last through the great circle of time to [it]” flavored with cinnamon and/or nutmeg.

Look out! Hippies!!

I believe this will be the first actual play of our scenario “The Queen of Night” (from Arkham Gazette 3, by @umlauthuth.bsky.social and myself) I am VERY excited.

An unseasonably early carton of egg nog.

I don’t know who changed the timeline so that egg nog is for sale in mid-September, but thanks, I guess.

Ichabod Orcutt (unknown-1810) - Find a Grave... Orcutt, Ichabod, died Feb. 24, 1810, age 75 yrs.

Showing Calvin Walker was paid $10 for the Ichabod Orcutt stone in West Stafford CT. This was supplemented by some yet to be published work from Bob Drinkwater which uncovered a separate payment to Sylvanus.
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A later “willow” stone carved by, I think, our unknown Walker. Lucy Scott, d. 1811. Palmer, MA. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80827085/lucy-scott

Val Harriss and Derek Strahan @gravestones-ne.bsky.social did all the on-the-ground research, connecting the quarry to the Cushman and Walker families, building out the extended Walker family tree, proving they were stone cutters, and finding a “smoking gun” probate record…

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Val Harriss and Bob Drinkwater with the Dorothy Walker stone in Brookfield, MA.

The key to solving this mystery was discovering Slater’s inventory of “Greek Girl” stones missed a substantial group of them in Stafford CT and locating a quarry nearby where the unusual type of stone (a type of quartzite called Clough Whitestone) they used could be found. 2/

Headstone of Betty King (d. 1810) in Palmer MA. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80826836/betty-king

This year I’ve been helping out a small team trying to identify the unknown gravestone carver James Slater dubbed “Greek Girl”. Turns out there were probably 3 carvers; Sylvanus Walker Jr., his son Calvin Walker, and another yet to be IDed.

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