Date: March 28, 2026
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Location: Fort Worth History Center, 501 E. Bolt St., Fort Worth, TX

Symbolism in Gravestone Art: Texas and Beyond

Cemeteries are filled with images intended to convey specific meanings to observers. They symbolic significance of older gravestones is often lost to later generations. Let's read the inscriptions but also learn and appreciate what those symbols teach about our ancestors and their times.

Bronwyn Bowen has been an ESL teacher for adults in NYC and Abilene. She's also had a career in the medical field as a medical PR writer and HIV/AIDS prevention educator. She holds a bachelor's degree in English and journalism from the University of Mississippi, as well as ESL teaching credentials from the New School University in New York City. But now in retirement she returns to her writing roots by facilitating several poetry appreciation and memoirs-writing groups in Austin. She's also published two books of short memoirs: Laughing All the Way: A Lucky Life and Still Got Something to Say. An avid "Cemetery Afficiando" and lover of gravestone art, she now scours cemeteries looking for interesting stories to speak to her.

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