I just though I would add my two-cents about
this as well. The Fort Morgan Museum is a small museum (3 full-time staff
members) in small town (about 11,000 people) and I've been with the museum
for about three years, and have had great success with my cemetery programs. I
do one that focuses on the movers and shakers and other notables buried in our
cemetery and then one called Murder, Mayhem, and Scandal, which delves into the
more gruesome side of the cemetery. Both have been quite successful - I've done
them with grade schoolers, high schoolers as well as adults and mixed families.
I think cemetery tours as well as most tours give the public a sense of
ownership about their community. And people are also interested in death and the
more gruesome or sensational aspects of life and death.
The tours have also been wonderful for me - a
newbie in the community. I have learned more about the community from my
cemetery research than from other research that I have done.
Sarah Woodman
Education Coordinator
Fort Morgan Museum
P.O Box 184
Fort Morgan,
Colorado 80701
970-542-4014
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