[cemetery guy]

Fyi...Many towns around the Lake have published their cemetery records (Rattlesnake Gal listed many). This includes Tuftonboro (a nicely done book), Wolfeboro, Moultonborough, Sandwich, Meredith, and Alton. These list each cemetery in town, and the folks buried within them. Most do not provide complete inscriptions from gravestones, and usually provide only cursory genealogical information, if any at all. Most have maps and drawings that are quite helpful to the explorer, but have only a few photographs of actual stones. Many of these books are available on-line from a variety of dealers at abe.com, but some can be purchased at local historical societies (including that for Moultonborough, which is well worth the price). Most of these books are recent works, except for Sandwich. As for other towns, the cemetery records for Laconia have been partially compiled and are to be found in the public library. Those for New Hampton are complete and can be found on the town's website. Those for Gilford are being compiled, and when complete will also include a photograph of every gravestone in town. These records are available at the Thompson-Ames Historical Society in Gilford. Because most of these works, with the exception of Gilford's work in progress, are not pictorial in nature, it has been my mission in my book to give a photographic overview of the many historic cemeteries in the area...a visual arm-chair tour if you will. Of course, they're always more interesting in person. Not spooky, but rather more historical, usually beautiful spots, and often quite touching gravestones.