Today, the terms Headstone, Grave Marker, and Tombstone are largely taken in common language to mean a permanent memorial marker at the site of a burial. However, it was not always so, and a tombstone or headstone was traditionally the stone lid for a coffin. Whereas the ‘gravestone’ or...
aThomas Bray began the first free lending library in the late 1600s. He set up more than 30 or these libraries in the American colonies. However, the idea for this kind of free library ended when Bray died in 1730. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and some friends started the first subscripti...