Description
Halloween in Maplewood
Tickets are good for any of the following dates and times:
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Saturday, October 28 at 10:00am, 11:45 am, 1:30pm
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Sunday, October 29 at 1:00pm, 2:45pm
Celebrate Durham history and Halloween with a guided tour of Durham’s famous Old Maplewood Cemetery. Preservation Durham tour guides will take small groups around the cemetery pausing here and there to tell stories of triumph and tragedy, joy and sorrow, wealth and poverty, lives long and short. We will talk about war, disease, and maybe even a murder mystery. Learn about funerary traditions, grave art and architecture. All this in what is perhaps Durham’s loveliest urban open space.
Maplewood was created in the early 1870s as Durham’s very first public amenity. The cemetery is Durham’s very first public space and its very first planned space. It is a garden of memories and our oldest repository of public art. In Maplewood are buried captains of industry, famous educators, great philanthropists, and ordinary people. In the cemetery are reposed the origins of many Durham legends and icons. Enjoy the peace and solemnity of one of the city’s great historic treasures.