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By Carla CharterWork is being done to preserve the site of the Poor Farm in Petersham. The cellar holes of the building and barn still exist, as does the paupers cemetery and monument to the indigent buried there.“We have gone out once with the...

By Carla CharterThis year, the Royalston Historical Society Candlelight Living History Cemetery Tours will be held in a new location, Riverside Cemetery in South Royalston, rather than its usual location of Royalston Center Cemetery.“The change was...

Twenty years ago, Barbara Hanno began photographing gravestones in Petersham for the Cemetery Commission files, a project that is ongoing today.Hanno said she began the project as ”I became charmed by the light reflections on old stones. One minute...