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UPDATE 10/03:  This event has been cancelled due to a lack of actors.

By Jerry Curry, Staff Writer

Washington County Theatre in conjunction with Eastern Cemetery will have an evening historical walk through the cemetery Friday October the 4th and Saturday the 5th.  This cemetery is located at 641 Baxter Ave. Louisville, KY.

This guided tour is not scary but introduces roughly 9 characters buried there. Participants will learn the history and meet some of these individuals buried in the cemetery. Hear them tell their stories as never before. 

Eastern cemetery is 28 acres of over buried graves. The cemetery has 16,000 graves with documentation of over 138,000 bodies. Nobody claims Eastern Cemetery and it is cared for by volunteers, “Friends of Eastern Cemetery.” The tours are a fund-raising event for both parties.

With this being the second year for the event, Andy Harpole of Friends of Eastern Cemetery said, “Last year was so successful that we invited them back again.” Charity Main, who is in charge of the actor’s portion, said, “About 100 – 150 people take the guided tours, with every third person carrying a lantern.”

About 18 actors take part in the event. All are dressed in period-accurate attire. The same group has been doing Crown Hill Cemetery in Salem for the last 10 years.

Eastern is located at 641 Baxter Ave, next to Cave Hill Cemetery. The first tour is 7:30 pm. and the last tour begins at 10:30 pm. The admission is $15 per adult (13 yrs and older) $12 per child (ages 6-13). Free for children 5 and under. They take Cash or Venmo. Tours start every ten minutes and last approximately one hour.

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