A picturesque fog slowly lifted like stage smoke just before the start of the first annual tour of the GAR Cemetery to benefit the Society.
As a couple dozen participants toured from one historic marker to the the next, the sun broke through, creating dramatic fall shadows to help set the scene.
A quick list of the grave sites and memorials visited, with short stories by Warner Blake, includes Hiram and Mary Morgan, John and Christina Harvey, Eldridge Morse, Albert Folsom, both Blackman families, one that was in the grocery business, and those we know best from the lumber business side of the large Maine family, (including the story of the two Clifford Blackman markers), the Fergusons also have several family sites, John and Eliza Elwell, Charles and Nina Bakeman, Cochrans, William and Eunich Ford, once residents of the Society’s historic home, , and ending up at the Pilchuck Julia and Jack’s Memorial.
The tour raised $100 for the care of our Blackman House Museum, and we are very grateful to all who joined us. Plans are underway to make this an annual event and we would love to hear suggestions from you who attended by using the “Leave a Reply” feature below.
View Tour Slide Show HERE. (With thanks to Gene Fosheim.)
