"Living History – Tradition Keeps the Stories Alive" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Jun 2018 12:54 p.m. PST |
"Stories and Stones, held at Fort Missoula Post Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Missoula, Montana, is a unique event that remembers the lives of some of Missoula's bygone citizens. Local residents portray or offer information on people, mostly soldiers and their families who are buried here, in a living history performance at their graves. The event, started by local resident Marcia Porter, began in 2007 and is sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History and the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula. Like many old cemeteries, there are graves of those who died during the Influenza Pandemic in 1917-1919 when up to fifty million people died worldwide. The Fort Missoula Post Cemetery is home to two graves of a mother and child who passed away while the husband was stationed at Fort Missoul…."
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| coryfromMissoula | 22 Jun 2018 1:01 p.m. PST |
All three of our local cemeteries participate – it is an eye opening event as the volunteers are free to select who they will portray and some of the tales are rather poignant. |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Jun 2018 1:16 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 23 Jun 2018 11:17 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my good friend!. (smile) Amicalement
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paints "four characterful figures that seem to come directly from a vintage vampire movie..."