Teri,
Our history curator's most popular program is local cemetery interpretation,
including a tour, grave-rubbings, interpretations of gravestone symbolism,
family histories and genealogies, and community history. It's all hands-on,
and kids and teachers love it. Every once in a while, she comes up against
a child who describes a recent family death or points out grandpa's nearby
headstone, but with sensitivity, this can be entirely educational. We've
done very popular community programs - "ghost walks" - in which costumed
interpreters act out the lives of the deceased at their gravesites. The
idea of a takeaway book is terrific. Why not illustrate it with rubbings?
You can reach our history curator off-list at [log in to unmask]
Charles C. Browne, Executive Director
The Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium
1302 Main Street
St. Johnsbury Vermont 05819
802 748 2372 (ph)
802 748 1893 (fax)
fairbanksmuseum.org (Web)
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Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:44 PM
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Subject: Hands on activity for cemetery tour.
Greetings to the list,
I am participating in an upcoming community outreach
fair which will showcase educational opportunities for
kids in our area. I will be representing the school
tour program for Sacramento's Old City Cemetery (ca
1849) which I manage. (Believe me, the irony of doing
"living history" in a cemetery is NOT lost on me!)
I am trying to devise something that kids can take
with them from our table to go with the tour brochure.
A coloring sheet came to mind, with either sketches
and captions of gravestone symbols (fairly neutral,
not-to-religious ones) or of noteworthy gravestones in
our cemetery (Mark Hopkins, or John Sutter, Jr., for
example).
My questions are these: Would the general public find
these too morbid for children? And, does anyone have
any other ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Teri Pope
Educational Tours Coordinator
Saxramento Old City Cemetery
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