Friends of Center Cemetery invites you to Center Cemetery’s 300th Birthday Celebration
Saturday, September 18, 2010
944 Main St, East Hartford, CT
Beginning at 4 p.m. with the Civil War Monument Rededication
The ceremony will acknowledge the completion of the 10 year long restoration process, managed by Friends, of the town’s 1868 Civil War monument with its crowning by a replication of its missing wing-spread eagle.
Following at 5 p.m. in the entrance area of cemetery:
Displays, Vendors, Palm and Tarot Card Readers, Gravestone carving, Homemade Refreshments
Evening Highlight: Historical Lantern Tour
See the pageantry of long deceased personalities of town history come back to life:
privateer Gideon Olmsted, Civil War poet-laureate Henry Brownell, grandame Sarah Williams, artist Henry Hammond Ahl, laboring Irish girls, gravedigger Uncle Hick and pal, and a black Civil War volunteer who sings.
Tour Admission $10
(free for children under 6)
Tour groups begin at 7 p.m.
leaving about every 15 minutes and last about 1 hour, 10 minutes each.
Proceeds go to help preserve our old stones and monuments.
A rain date will be announced when determined.
For more information call
Ruthie Brown (860-643-5652)
or Ray Tubbs (860-528- 2987)