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Lunette - John Walden LbNA #33103

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 16, 2007
Location:
City:Canterbury
County:Windham
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Nomad Indian Saint
Found by: quiltjoy
Last found:Feb 10, 2023
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Jul 16, 2007
Have you ever marveled at the 18 and early 19th century headstones of our ancestors? The colonial burying grounds of New England represent some of the most wondrous carvings and are treasure troves of information and beauty of many kinds. The stones are the “persisting symbols of an art form that is largely indigenous, that reached a high level of abstract complexity and beauty that died away in an amazingly short period of time.”

The term lunette is referred to as the top central area of the stone, the area containing the cherub. The majority of the stones carved by John Walden are fairly easy to distinguish. They are either carved by John Walden III (1734-1807) or John Walden IV (1752-1824); since at least one is dated after the death of John Walden II in 1808, thus the theory that John Walden IV carved what are considered to be typical Walden stones. These are very similar to Manning stones, but the faces are circular rather than elliptical, the mouth is much more delicately executed, the expression less forbidding, and almost always there is a short neck below the head. Let me take you to a John Walden stone.

Woodchuck Hill Cemetery – Canterbury, CT

Directions - On Route 14 just west of the church at Westminster take Water Street south for approximately 2.5 miles to where Cemetery Road enters from the right (west). Turn right here and after 0.6 miles you will come to a cemetery on either side of the road. The old burying ground is on the north (right) side of the road.

Walk into the cemetery on the east side of the road. 3rd row to the left- 5th stone and many more in that row attributed to Walden. Put this stone to your left shoulder and walk straight to the wall. Now go to the corner of the wall behind the champion pine. Watch for barbwire.