Crownrot
From the Editor
Most archives begin after someone realizes something worth keeping has already disappeared.
Crownrot was founded in the hope of arriving slightly earlier.
Its interests are narrow by design: funeral custom, cemetery history, vernacular belief, memorial art, and the countless traditions that exist somewhere between documented history and local memory. Some deserve correction. Others deserve skepticism. Nearly all deserve to be recorded before they are forgotten entirely.
The archive grows slowly. Material is included because it contributes something worth preserving, not because another issue is due.
If these pages encourage closer observation, they have served their purpose.
E. Endicott
Editor
London — Gloucester, Massachusetts
London is a young black cat at Cape Ann Animal Aid. He is diabetic and FIV positive, and requires insulin and routine veterinary care. His adoption fee has been fully sponsored, so he is free to an approved adopter.