Living History Tour @ Angelus Rosedale Cemetery [09/29/2007]

Saturday September 29th, 2007 - WAHA's 17th Annual Living History Tour will be happening at The Angelus Rosedale Cemetery located within sight of Downtown Los Angeles.

If you like cemeteries and Los Angeles history, this is a perfect outing. You'll get to see people in character next to the corresponding graves give little speeches about who they were and what they did - some are more successfull at letting themselves be "posessed" for the occasion than others - but it's always a good time and the money raised from tickets goes to help out the cemetery which is always in need of repair.

Angelus Rosedale Cemetery - though not on tourist's lists like Forest Lawn Glendale or Hollywood Forever - is a really great cemetery with some excellent headstones and sculpture. They've even got a couple of different pyramid crypts!

There's lots of Los Angeles history in the place, so do some research before going and plan to spend some extra time walking around on your own!

[The Vintage Hearse Association will also be there with several hearses on display as part of the tour...]

•WAHA Tour Info & More WAHA Tour Info

Cemetery Tours - MN, TN, WI/IL

In looking at the "cemetery" news items on my screen it seems that there are some cemetery tour opportunities cropping up this summer. We at Night~Doings hope that more towns follow suit and offer tours of their local cemeteries as a way to educate people about their local history... What better way to make friends and build a sense of community is there than a stroll through the cemetery? Unfortunately none of these are in our neck of the woods, but they might be in yours.

•Hallowed Ground: A Lantern Tour of Stones River National Cemetery
News Blurb Here
When: June 9, June 30, July 14, July 28, Aug. 11 and Aug. 25
Time: 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Reservations are required and must be made by calling (615) 893-9501 starting on Monday preceding the program date. Reservations will not be taken in the Visitor Center or by e-mail. There is a limit of six tickets per caller, and reservations are not transferable to another program date.
Stones River National Battlefield is located at 3501 Old Nashville
Highway, Murfreesboro, TN.

•Oakwood Cemetery Walk - Rochester, MN
News Blurb Here
June 16th - The first tour begins at 1 p.m., the last one at 4 p.m.
Visitors are guided from site to site to spend a few minutes with
characters from Rochester's history, such as: Fred Colvin, a local
farmer and Olmsted County commissioner, and his wife, Alice; Amelia Kruesel, lifelong resident of Rochester who died at age 109; and Roy Watson Sr., former president and general manager of the Kahler Corp.
Oakwood Cemetery is at 41 Seventh Ave. N.E.
For more information, call the history center at 282-9447.

•The McConnell Area Historical Society presents the
Salem/Shippee Cemetery Walk from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, June 10. [In Illinois, me thinks.]
News Blurb Here
Local people acquire the persona of a person of historic note to the area and tell you their story from the actual grave site. Interest and historic value (see Leamon's horse drawn hearse) and insight into our forefathers makes this event one worth witnessing.
More information is available by calling President Terry Price at (815) 275-2709 or Secretary Robin Pardus at (815) 868-2425.