And today, our regular contributor, Bill Bright, tells us a story from his little town, Antrim, New Hampshire.

[gentle music] Antrim's voters elected me a cemetery trustee in 2018.

I'd help two other trustees govern the f- town's four public cemeteries.

It's meant receiving occasional telephone calls from relatives of deceased persons who wanted to be buried in Antrim.

Among the usual reasons for this are that the deceased was born or spent many happy summers in the town.

The callers generally asked about getting the grave dug.

I gather the correct term of art is opening the grave.

Here's Bill.

The British army held New York City for two years after Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown on October 19th, 1781.

The city's population had fallen below 10,000.

Most of the residents were loyalist refugees from revolutionary terrorism.

Accident, disaster, and the war had disrupted civic life.

The Great Fire of September 21, 1776 had burned everything between Whitehall and Broad Streets as far up Broadway as Rector Street and as far up Broadway as Beaver Street.

Rents had risen 400% within the first year of occupation.

Here's Bill to tell us more about General Henry Knox.