Thu 10/23-Sun 10/26
Some people find cemeteries ghoulish and haunted, while others see them as fascinating repositories of history. Whichever camp you fall into, Canalway Partners’ Buried History Days events provide lots of fodder.
The four days offer a dozen different walking tours and talks, a concert and even a trick-or-treat party as you explore area cemeteries from the well-known, such as the Erie Street Cemetery across from Progressive Field, Cleveland’s oldest, and the sprawling Lake View Cemetery with its monument to President James A. Garfield, to obscure ones such as the Harvard Grove Cemetery tucked away in Slavic Village. Historians and other experts will relate the stories about the civic leaders, Revolutionary War soldiers, and early settlers who now reside under the stones and efforts to preserve their history for the future.
At Riverside Cemetery on Saturday October 24, you can take part in “Twilight Tunes & Tombstone Tales” where an acoustic concert will wrap up a guided tour, and a couple of food trucks will be onsite. And the weekend wraps up with Trick-or-Treating in the Cemetery at the Monroe Street Cemetery in Ohio City, where kids are invited wear their costumes to meet actors in costume as historic local figures and heard their stories as they hand out treats. That event, like many of the others, is free (and requires no advance registration) although some require tickets. Go here to learn more and register.