Stories and Stones...coming soon

Missoula Cemetery
Phone: (406) 552-6070 Fax: (406) 327-2137
Email: cemetery@ci.missoula.mt.us
2000 Cemetery Road Missoula, Montana 59802
Web: www.ci.missoula.mt.us/cemetery


Stories and Stones Historical Tour
Sunday - October 26, 2008
12:30 - 3:30pm

One of Missoula's oldest cemeteries presents an afternoon of history coming to life through stories of individuals from Missoula's past. This is the Missoula Cemetery's seventh year of this vastly popular event for all ages!

Do you know that at the Missoula Cemetery you will discover..
¯ What three men founded Missoula?
¯ Who was the lone survivor of a renegade Nez Perce attack in Rock Creek?
¯ Who ran Missoula's Red Light District and still waves to 'her boys'?
¯ How Civil War veterans came to forever rest here?
¯ Who was Missoula's first schoolteacher?
¯ Why mystery surrounds the burial of a smokejumper/CIA operative?
¯ Who was the first Congresswoman in Montana?
¯ NEW** Which Sheriff lost his job for making moonshine?
¯ NEW** How a local poet portrayed the Montana ranch life?
¯ NEW** Which laundress was murdered by her husband in 1903?
¯ NEW** Who owned the first gas and grocery store in the Clinton area?
¯ NEW** Which UofM professor founded the Sigma Chi Fraternity?
¯ NEW** Which Missoula Mayor was also an eight-term Justice of the Peace?
¯ NEW** Barbershop's very best by the Five Valleys Chapter of Sweet Adelines?
¯ NEW** Which of Missoula's co-founders had a young wife who walked with a cane due to a campfire accident on the wagon train trip to Montana?
¯ NEW** Who has the only iron marker in all of western Montana? Along with so much more!

Volunteers will tell up to 40 stories. Visitors will be treated to live music, food, and fun! Come see individuals dressed in times of old as they capture your imagination by re-enacting people of our past. Stroll under the fall canopy of trees while being serenaded by music of bygone days. Admission is free with donations gladly accepted. Vendors will be on hand selling hot food and drinks.

Cemetery Contact for this event: Mary Ellen Stubb at 552-6070.
The following storytellers would be happy to talk about their roles for news coverage before the event: Kim Kaufman portraying Madame Mary Gleim - call 273-9036, Dr. Robert Brown portraying Captain Christopher P Higgins - call 728-3476, Marcia Porter portraying Josephine Dukes - call 258-3457.