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Cemetery Tour Kit Lane presentations

2023.18.16

An example of mixing historical presentation with entertainment.

Cemeteries and graves

Winthers, Sally

2023.18

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076 Parks and Cemeteries

Riverside Cemetery 1864-Rulison, Bessie M. 1864-1963/66

https://www.sdhistoricalsociety.org/Newsletter/2011/sep11/sep11_newsletter.htm Oct. 12, 2011 OCTOBER MEETING PROGRAM Visitors from Douglas Cemetery To Bring Tales from the Crypt In keeping with the season, the October 12th meeting at the Old School House, will feature a visit by some of the more interesting ghosts from the Douglas Cemetery. The founding families will be represented with Lucinda Dutcher, and her Civil War hero son, George; Robert McDonald, Frank Wade, the first white child born in Douglas; and William A. May, the first boy of Douglas. With the help of our technical people who have photographed their tombstones so they will feel at home, there will be a parade of citizens from the distant, and not so distant past. Even a visitor from California. What Douglas man arrived in Allegan County the day after his birth in a shoebox? Why is a pair of tombstones in the Douglas Cemetery some of the most photographed in the state? Learn about the woes of the Haubenreisser family, the fall and rescue of Alice's angel and why a Prentice son lived for four years in his own little house in the backyard of his parents' house in Douglas. How do these people speak after all these years? You might say they have ghost writers. submitted by Kit Lane

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