Sharon’s stone unveiling was yesterday, 11/3/24. It now has quite a few little stones on the top. We said the Mourners’ Kaddish for her, of course, and her son read some of her poetry. The stone is beautiful. BTW, Sharon would have LOVED seeing how dog eared your copy of her book is. Little pleased her more than seeing her book got *used*. May Sharon Ann Burnston’s memory be for a blessing. (The traditional Jewish saying for people after they die.)

Beautiful letter! Is it possible the mark on 5:58 actually says april 30th because IV is 4, or is the camera just inverted?

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing this trick.

I have a relative in NE from 1600s that has a literal stone with the initials carved in it. But it is in an established cemetery and is in Find A Grave.

That was awesome!

what kind of stone is the red stone?

beautiful .

are these replacement stones?

Half of the Pilgrims of Plymouth, Massachusetts died in the first winter of 1620-1621, sadly I don’t believe any marked graves remain.

I think the longevity of both stones is due to the type of rock they are made from.

i didn;t think people of modern times had there tombstones carved in the styles from the colonial period

Who do you carve these stones for?

Wonderful work as usual.

i'vew used the flash trick for about year now but i don't think i can drag a full length mirror with me for what to do. Would a hand or bathroom mirror work?

Sorry read Barnard Capen was carved after his death

Beautiful and amazing. I love it. I love 18th century gravestones. The earliest soul effigy I have seen is on the 1723 slate of John Saltar, in the cemetery of the Old Yellow Meeting House of Red Valley, in Monmouth County, NJ. That stone has a twin, but it was broken in half, diagonally, many years ago. That one was for his wife.

This video is going to come in handy! I am also restoring a 1931 Truck with the same molding! You somehow remind me of me! LOL! Old Cars and Tunes from the 1920s and 1930's! I LOVE this! I would love to meet you in person one day soon, I would love to share pictures of my cars with you!

Thank you for this video! I am putting trim on a 1929 Oakland, WHAT A CHORE! Having to shape all the aluminum trim, it has the same top as a Blind back sedan! And I LOVE your using the wonderful period music "When Love Comes In The Moonlight" is a fantastic tune!

Saint Augustine Florida is the oldest city in the US. Settled 1500. Im sure theres Graves there. Older then this one.

Very informative, interesting, and relaxing to watch thank you for sharing. you are very talented

Very interesting, informative, and relaxing to watch. Thank you for sharing your talent

Great place to go and see A lot of interesting car history. Model a day's was so much fun. Thanks for the video

A great time I'm sure. I have the gear , but don't have the car.

freshman in highschool, my handwriting is absolute dirt and ive been playing games set 100 plus years ago and every journal i come across, the penmanship is beautiful so now its my turn 😭🙏

Hope the Lord has spared you and your loved ones from the flood.

I love this so much, thank you! I wish more people wrote letters today

Were can I buy a candle holder like the one in this video or some other period accurate candle holder?

New subscriber and I am enjoying your content and learning so much. Thank you. My question and the title that I am looking for is: "How to open a period letter without destroying the letter." I get how to fold and seal with a wax seal. Lots of content on the Tube about that but I can not find anyone to demonstrate how to open or break a wax sealed letter without without wrecking or damaging the letter. I have tried many times on my own sealed letters and in some way I mar them every time. I can not figure out what the typical method was so as to not damage the letter.

Love this video. You are very talented.

Nicely written! You talk about the word καλαμος, 'reed [pen]'. You may or may not know that in Arabic a قلم, _qalam,_ is a reed and a reed pen, and is a direct loan-word from the Greek word. _Qalam_ is used to mean 'pen' in the Qur'an (e.g. 96:3-5 _"Recite! and your Lord is generous who taught with the_ qalam, _taught man what he knew not!)"._ That recitation (traditionally part of the very first part of the Qur'an revealed to the Prophet) would have been written in the start of the seventh century, at a time when men were still writing administrative documents in Greek on papyrus in Egypt and the Levant. I studied Arabic calligraphy and my _qalam_ is just like your καλαμος! Similarly, your word in 2 John 1:12, χαρτης, 'papyrus', was borrowed into Arabic as قرطاس, _qirtas,_ which also appears in the Qur'an. Of course it just means 'paper' now. One question, though. Isn't your writing a little larger than the writing on most papyri? Or am I thinking of later papyri?

Might i ask what gsm is the paper you use ?

It's wonderful that this grave stone has survived all these years, this is a great video. This cemetery take loving care for their deceased. ✝️❤️🙂

Hello sir. I wanted to find out about some graves that are less than an 1/8 of a mile from the place where I grew up in southeastern Kentucky. They are very, very old. This is what lead me to finding your channel. I was interested to find out about these graves and their headstones. There are graves and headstones one the graveyard that dates well back i to the 1850's and older. With the dates being printed on them. But the ones that interests me the most are the other tombstones. They have no literature, or writing on them at all. No names, or nothing. Instead they have symbols all over them. Symbols lole moons, stars, and perhaps even pentagrams also. And even more. When I was a kid, I would to this graveyard and visit the graves. Pretending that the graves with symbols were those who may practiced witchcraft. In the early settlers days of our fine continent. With the dates probably dating back to around the same time as the Salom Witch Trials. With lots of people, no doubt leaving their towns, communities, and settlements. To move far away western of the Atlantic coast states. There are a lot of history of Indians in the area also. Being of Cherokee decent for the most part. Maybe some other tribes such as Shawnee. But these are some very old grave. And I can not manage to find anything anywhere that speaks of graves and tombstones such as these. Some of them are even blank. Probably with their cravings all withered away from the several centuries of weather they have had to endure. I have also found a few massive rock piles that more than likely belong to Indians. But I have also had an interest in finding out all the info I can on these graves. They're the only ones I've ever saw lile this, or heard of. And there are a lot of them too. With about half of them in the oldest section of the cemetery being graves like this. I would really love it if someone would find out some info about them. Perhaps even visit this place to document it. Before the tides of time finally destroys these unique tombstones. And some info is found out about this type of tombstones. Maybe being able to understand a bit about the writing would bring us to understand and know more about an almost ancient people that lived and died in the same place of my childhood home, hundreds of years before I was born. Leaving these symbols as the last thing anyone would ever be able to know and gain about the i fo leading around their lives and deaths. Let alone their decent and religions beliefs. Plus their very unique language that the communicated with during this time in history. I would be more than happy to take you there some time. It's very easy to get to. Right next to a few modern day homes. Where a family and their relatives reside today. About 3 or 4 different households. And they are good and peaceful people. Who wouldn't care one but for us to look around and maybe take some pictures. Or record some footage for the content of your channel. Please contact me, any time. I now liv3 about an hours east of Louisville. With my childhood home, exactly 3 hours from here. It's a community basically inter wilderness. But it's easy to get to and a public county road that goes right by it. My contact info in in my KZbin Channel's "About" section. So I look forward to hearing from you. Maybe we can learn something about these graves. And perhaps bring the knowledge and attention to the world. Before they are lost and forgotten in the samd of time, for good. Thank you for your time. I really like your channel and work. Hoping to hear from you. Thanks again.

Just today discovered Pumpkintown Primitives and I am blown away by your amazing talent.

Did you have to ream your bushings

Thank you. Your video is wonderful. I like seventeenth century headstones, especially if they have a death's head winged skull. Do you write about them? Could you tell me where to go to see them? I would like to take a trip in New England to see them this fall when the leaves are in color. A bit later, I will take another trip to see seventeenth century grave headstones in Upstate New York. If you recommend a cemetery, I will visit it. I am having my grave headstone made in they style of a seventeenth century headstone. I even am reading about Calvin.

What is the name of the cemetery that you did this video in?

Called “raking light” by photographers. Great for carvings … not so much for faces! 😮

As always, a great helpful video.

What kind of mic do you use to make these videos?

Hello brother. This is very helpful, thank you

Super good. Thank you for your efforts. I always appreciate your videos whatever the content.

Glory to God! I was wondering where a person could learn how to do this?

you make it look to easy. lol great job i hope to see yall soon

Great video. I’m cheep too LOL maybe I just go with new when I do mine. Love you videos! Keep it up.

I was watching till the end and I was thinking "Oh man, he didn't really get any additional lift after all that work." Which you promptly acknowledged. :) I think one of the takeaways here is that the cold re-arching instructions... don't work? Where did you find those?

Well done and thank you for your deeper look into things. Have a great week, God Bless ~ Chuck

Thanks for the video, I'm in Tasmania Australia, i found it easier to fit the main leaf of the spring to the shackles then assemble the spring in place. can you send the details of the Facebook site that you referred to, it may be snle to help me in the future. Keep thr videos coming. Thanks Byron

Muy bueno! Saludos desde Argentina

Thank you for your explanation. I’m currently doing a research paper about this time of stone in middle PA. I hope you wouldn’t mind if I reached out to you in the future for further commentary on the creative process then and now?