Painting of Woodstock Tomb built by residents in 1825. The cold climate in Vermont required construction of this resting place for the deceased over the winter. When the weather was more favorable, the departed were placed in a cemetery.

As of 1937, the tomb was intact and according to author Mary Grace Canfield in her book “ The Valley of the Kedron”, “the dynamite used for road construction was stored in it. There are no words in our English language to describe adequately this extraordinary transition from dead to dynamite”.

This tomb located in South Woodstock VT still bears witness to the skill of the stone cutters, masons and the smiths who forged the hinges all of which I felt deserved space on my canvas.