Fall Events at Cedar Hill Cemetery

With fall just around the corner, Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation is preparing for the end of the 2007 Tours and Events season. Rudy J. Favretti, professor emeritus UConn and author of Jacob Weidenmann: Pioneer Landscape Architect, will be hosting a book talk and signing for the public on Wednesday, September 26 at 5:30 pm. Based on four decades of work by Mr. Favretti, Jacob Weidenmann is the first comprehensive biography of this pioneer landscape architect covering his life and career in depth and illuminating his importance in the field of landscape architecture. Mr. Favretti will share his experience researching and writing this tribute to a man who - until now - has been overshadowed and underacknowledged.

On Saturday, September 29, Steve Courtney, co-editor of The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story and author of a forthcoming biography on Twichell, will lead event attendees on a tour of Cedar Hill to learn more about Mark Twain's companions and cohorts. While Mark Twain does not reside at Cedar Hill Cemetery, many of his friends and peers do, including his closest friend Reverend Joseph Twichell, the best-selling novelist Charles Dudley Warner, and women's rights activitist Isabella Beecher Hooker. Mr. Courtney will tell us more about each of their lives and how their lives intertwined with Twain's.

We wrap up the 2007 Tours and Events season on Friday, October 26 with our much anticipated Haunted History Lantern Tour. This event begins at 7:00 pm and is the only time during the year that the Cemetery is open to the public at night. Tour groups are led through Cedar Hill's historic sections where you meet some of Cedar Hill's most notable residents played by character actors. This is a fun, family-friendly event that attracted more than 300 people last year.

To learn more about these and other tours and events for the rest of the season, visit http://www.cedarhillcemetery.org/.