History Lessons in the Cemetery

Lantern Light Cemetery Tour - Next tour Saturday, Oct 15th.

This is the fifth time we've staged a cemetery tour with costumed interpreters portraying the honored dead. This is so much fun, I never get tired of it.  We have 14 different persons of note portrayed by our Glendower Historic Characters.They each spend three or four minutes talking about "themselves".  The very first gravesite we visit is a famous opera singer and we have an opera student who sings an aria as you enter the tour.  There is a Civil War section and my sister who plays the violin,  plays Civil War songs as the folks tour through that area. At the end of the tour is the Shaker grave marker for the people called Shakers or the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing as they were offically known. At that site one of the "Shaker sisters" sings some of the favorite Shaker songs.   Our Historian leads the tour giving extra bits of information as we go along. This tour is in our main cemetery and will be repeated next July.
Our Pioneer Cemetery will have a similar tour on Memorial Day weekend. The Glendower Historic Characters will be on hand to portray our earliest pioneers of note. Check out http://www.wchsmuseum.org/ for more information.