What’s on the Cover? (5)

I took this picture of Sintha Peck s gravestone in Old Ashford Cemetery in Ashford, Connecticut, on a chilly winter s day a couple of years ago. Cemeteries are remarkable places, and I m particularly drawn to those that memorialize early Americans in eighteenth-century spaces. In the nineteenth century American cemeteries expanded, became larger and even designed (think Mount Auburn), moving away…