[Durham INC] Cemetery tour reminder

[tom miller]

Please post this Cemetery tour reminder on your neighborhood list serve for
me.  I am so grateful for your help.

 

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Don't Miss Historic Maplewood Cemetery Tours Saturday!

 

Old Maplewood Cemetery Tour, Saturday, October 19

 

Durham's history is literally written in stone in Historic Maplewood
Cemetery.  Here are laid to rest millionaires and paupers, saints and
scallywags.  On the tour we will tell stories of triumph, tragedy, fame, and
misfortune - all in one of Durham's loveliest open spaces.  On Saturday,
Preservation Durham will lead interesting walks in the oldest part of the
cemetery.  We will talk about the Dukes, of course - the rich ones and the
poor ones, but we will cover so much more.  Hear about the boy who was
killed by a lion, about Gill Cates, the first Durham police officer killed
in the line of duty, and about Mary Dowd Walker, the reformer who was North
Carolina's first woman judge.  Learn about Ritta Geer, the first
African-American buried in the formerly all-white cemetery and about Pauli
Murray's fight to tear down the fence that once separated Maplewood from her
family's cemetery next door. We will visit the beautiful Hebrew Cemetery and
the grave of Nurse Thompson, gentle heroine of the Spanish Flu.  We will
discuss who shot Major Lloyd and the tragedy of Ora Johnson's false teeth.

 

There will be three tours operating continuously all day. Each tour is a
loop that covers a different part of the cemetery.  Tour-goers may come
anytime between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. and join a tour in progress.  Shift
from tour to tour or do all three!  Each tour takes about an hour and
fifteen minutes.  Look for the Preservation Durham tent at the Kent Street
entrance near Morehead Avenue. Buy tickets in advance online here:
<https://www.preservationdurham.org/tours>
https://www.preservationdurham.org/tours , or get your tickets at the
Preservation Durham tent at the cemetery on Saturday.  The weather will be
glorious! Wear sensible shoes!

 

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