From: "Seymour, Janet I" <DYKEMAJI@uwec.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:29:31 -0500 Subject: List Serve FW: Cemetery Walk in Kenosha Message-ID: <EEA4CA65D05DC54E874A89D9F518681954E048FBB8@CHERRYCOKE.uwec.edu>
Visit http://www.kenoshahistorycenter.org/events.htm for more information.
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From: Tom Schlief [mailto:kenoshahistorycenter@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 1:57 PM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: Cemetery Walk in Kenosha
The Kenosha History Center is doing a Cemetery Walk at the Green Ridge Ceme
tery on October 3 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm This years theme is Kenosha's Mariti
me History. Visit with Capt Stephen Jackson, lighthouse keeper Charles O'Ne
il and the only women keeper Lorinda Merrill. Also meet Rouse Simmons the K
enosha businessman who had the famous Lake Michigan Christmas Tree Ship nam
ed for him. Museum director Tom Schleif will also do two lantern light tour
s of the cemetery on Oct 6 and Oct 7 at 7:00pm in the Green Ridge Cemetery.
You will learn about tombstone symbolism and visit the graves of some prom
inent and eccentric Kenoshans.