Victorian Sentiments: The Art of Mourning, Personal and Public

Tuesday, October 27th, 2026 at 5:30 PM
238 Cabot Street, Holyoke, MA 01040Holyoke, MA

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Jewelry and gravestones may seem to be an unlikely combination, but both reflect society’s beliefs about death and mourning in similar ways. Though we may identify mourning jewelry and sentimental gravestone symbolism with the Victorian period, their roots and usage go back to antiquity: looking back just a few hundred years reveals dramatic changes in how people thought about death.

Joanne and Dennis Picard of Westfield, Massachusetts, will share images and stories about the changes in our area with the coming of garden cemeteries and the formal ritualization of mourning. This presentation will be held in Wistariahurst Museum's Music room on Tuesday, October 27th at 5:30pm. Admission is donation based, with a sliding scale of $1 - $10.

Las joyas y las lápidas pueden parecer una combinación inverosímil, pero ambas reflejan de manera similar las creencias de la sociedad sobre la muerte y el duelo. Aunque solemos asociar las joyas de duelo y el simbolismo sentimental de las lápidas con la época victoriana, sus raíces y su uso se remontan a la Antigüedad: basta con echar la vista atrás unos pocos cientos de años para descubrir cambios drásticos en la forma en que la gente concebía la muerte.

Joanne y Dennis Picard, de Westfield (Massachusetts), compartirán imágenes e historias sobre los cambios que se produjeron en nuestra zona con la llegada de los cementerios ajardinados y la ritualización formal del duelo. Esta presentación tendrá lugar en la Sala de Música del Museo Wistariahurst el martes 27 de octubre a las 17:30 h. La entrada se basa en donativos, con una escala variable de entre 1 y 10 dólares.

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