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Ghosts & Graveyards: Learning from Charlottesville’s Dead


Location: Maplewood Cemetery

Date: Saturday, May 28th, 2pm

Cost: $5 per person


Spend this Memorial Day honoring some of Charlottesville's great heroes and learning more about how Charlottesvillians from the past honored the dead. Join Dr. Lynn Rainville (anthropologist and historian) on a one-hour tour of one of Charlottesville's most historic graveyards, Maplewood Cemetery. Learn about historic gravestone symbols, mortuary rituals, and funerals from bygone eras. Find out why Victorian mothers were encouraged to take their children on strolls through the landscapes of the dead. And get a sneak-peak into the lives of past Charlottesvillians (these individuals will return later this year during the Society's October Spirit Walk).

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Tickets are $5 per person, to benefit the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society.

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