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CALENDAR of EVENTS


September 2006   October 2006   November 2006   December 2006




September 2006

Shadows & Stones of Portsmouth Tour
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
When: Saturday Sept. 2, at 7 p.m. (***these tours conducted with ghost hunting equipment, EVPs will be taken, along with EMF readings and other devices); Sunday, Sept. 17, at 3 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 24, at 3 p.m.
Cost: $10.00 for adults, $8.00 for children under 12
Phone: 207-439-8905

We will guide you through the shadows of the past to hear tales of witchcraft, lost souls, and mysterious happenings from local graveyards. This tour also highlights the transitions in burial and cemetery customs and traditions from Colonial times through the present.

What stories have been buried with Portsmouth's notable citizens? Learn about gravestone symbolism and view some of the most amazing 17th and 18th Century stones in Northern New England.

Join us under the tall pines in the scenic Point of Graves cemetery and listen to see if you can hear the ghostly footsteps behind you. View handcarved skulls and crossbones, winged skulls, the hourglass that ran out nearly 300 years ago, and cherubs - some angelic and others startling. We will also tell amazing tales from other nearby graveyards in Portsmouth. Decide for yourself if this is a peaceful resting place or a place where some spirits don't rest quietly.

Our spirited tour is about one hour and a half long. Make sure to bring your camera along! www.newenglandcuriosities.com



Mount Auburn Cemetery: Celebrating 175 Years
Who: Mount Auburn Cemetery
What: 175th Anniversary of its Consecration
Where: Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
When: September 24, 2006
Time: 2 p.m.
Cost: Free, but please call 617-607-1995 for an invitation
Contact: Bree Detamore Harvey, Director of Public Programs, 617-547-7105 ext. 1945

Mount Auburn Cemetery, the nation’s oldest garden cemetery and the model for our modern day parks system, is celebrating its 175th Anniversary. September 24, 2006 will mark the anniversary of its Consecration and will be celebrated with a commemoration service at the Cemetery. It will feature Reverend Peter Gomes of Harvard University, Paul Grogan of the Boston Foundation, poetry readings by Celia Gilbert, and fanfares by the New England Conservatory.

Mount Auburn Cemetery is the final resting place of many famous and important historical figures, including Charles Bulfinch, Mary Baker Eddy, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Winslow Homer and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, to name a few. 175 years into its mission, Mount Auburn Cemetery remains an active cemetery and a place of comfort and inspiration for the 200,000 people who visit it annually.

GRAVESIDE STORIES CEMETERY WALK AT ELM LAWN
Saturday, September 30, 2006, 3 to 7 p.m.
Join us for a unique look into history as you walk from grave to grave
and learn about early Elmhurst as local volunteer actors portray
community residents of the past. The tour will be held at historic Elm
Lawn Cemetery at 401 E. Lake Street (Frontage Road). Performances run
every twenty minutes between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. Admission is $5.00 per
person for advance tickets or $7.00 at the door. Children under 6 are
free. No strollers please. For reservations call Elmhurst Historical
Museum 630-833-1457.



October 2006

All Saints' Soiree at the Basin Street Station, New Orleans
Who: Save Our Cemeteries
What: Guided tour of St. Louis Cemetery #1 followed by the Soiree
Where: 501 Basin Street, New Orleans
When: October 22, 2006
Time: 3 p.m. tour, 4-7 p.m. Soiree
Cost: Soirée tickets are $35 for SOC members; $45 for non-members; and $75 for patrons, which includes the tour of St. Louis Cemetery.
Contact: 504-525-3377 to purchase.

Patron and sponsors enjoy a guided tour of St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 at 3 p.m. The Soiree is from 4 to 7 p.m on the fabulous fourth floor, overlooking the cemetery and French Quarter. Hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and live music. Visit our Cemeteryscape 2006 photography exhibit on display in the ground floor exhibit space.

Mount Auburn Cemetery: Celebrating 175 Years
What: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents, “W.E.B. Du Bois and Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience”
Where: Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston
When: October 18, 2006
Time: 6 p.m.
Cost: Free, but please call 617-607-1995 to RSVP
Contact: Bree Detamore Harvey, Director of Public Programs, 617-547-7105 ext. 1945

In honor of the 175th Anniversary of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the nation’s oldest garden cemetery and the final resting place of many remarkable individuals, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Chair of African and African American Studies, and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, will give a lecture, “W.E.B. Du Bois and Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience” at the Boston Public Library in the Rabb Auditorium on October 18, 2006 at 6 p.m.

Professor Gates is the co-editor of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, an encyclopedia of the history and culture of Africa and the events of the African Diaspora. Mr. Du Bois was the visionary behind the book, and was working on it at the time of his death in 1963.

The encyclopedia contains 3,500 entries, including references to Harriet Ann Jacobs, the author of a slave narrative, and Josephine Saint Pierre Ruffin, a journalist, civil rights leader, and suffragist, both of whom are buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Additionally, the encyclopedia contains an entry on Edmonia Lewis, the first internationally recognized African American sculptor. Her sculpture Hygeia, one of the few surviving pieces of her work, prominently marks a grave at the Cemetery.

Mount Auburn Cemetery is celebrating its 175th Anniversary with a year of lectures, music, and other events at the Cemetery. This lecture, part of the “Facets of Mount Auburn: Celebrating 175 Years of a Boston Jewel” lecture series, is a fitting event for Mount Auburn, which bears a history free of discrimination; people of all races have always been buried there.

This event is co-sponsored by the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia: Bicentennial Parade
Sunday, Oct. 29, at 3 p.m. (rain or shine)
Take part in an old-fashioned funeral procession from Clay Street to the Cemetery, ending with the burial of our bicentennial time capsule. Citizens are encouraged to dress in costume as someone buried in the Cemetery or as a mourner wearing black. ssemble near
Sixth and Clay Streets. Free.
November 2006

All Saints' Day
When: Nov. 1

A Run Through History, Metairie, Louisiana
What: 1 Mile, 5K race through Metairie Cemetery (near New Orleans)
Where: Metairie, La.
When: Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Cost: Unknown
Website: www.runnotc.org


December 2006

Caroling at Mount Auburn Cemetery
What: Mount Auburn Cemetery's carol singing and poetry reading
Where: Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
When: Saturday, December 16, 2006
Time: 1 p.m.
Cost: Free, but please register online at www.mountauburn.org or call 617-607-1981 to RSVP
Contact: Bree Detamore Harvey, Director of Public Programs, 617-547-7105 ext. 1945

Walking throughout Mount Auburn Cemetery’s magnificent grounds, participants will sing carols and read poetry while visiting the graves of Phillips Brooks, the former Rector of Boston’s Trinity Church and the author of “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author of “Christmas Bells”. This event will take place Saturday, December 16 at 1 p.m.

Mount Auburn Cemetery is celebrating its 175th Anniversary with a year of lectures, music, and other events at the Cemetery.

Please call or visit www.mountauburn.org for further information.

June 2007

National Mortician's Day!
When: June 16

Updated 10-11-06