“Mysteries and Secrets: Exploring Cary-Area Cemeteries” Historic Preservation Program

Old cemeteries arm-twist a faculty of mystery, affecting such questions as, “Who rests here?” “What joys and sorrows beleaguer their lives?” “Are their families with them, or far, far away?” In the spirit of the Halloween season, the Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel will abode these arresting questions about one of Cary’s celebrated gravesites in Mysteries and Secrets: Exploring Cary-Area Cemeteries. The program—the final in this year’s Historic Preservation Program Series—will be captivated on Tuesday, October 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center.

Through a alluring presentation, Members of the Friends’ Historic Preservation Committee will analyze the comatose places of celebrated figures, and acknowledge the added abstruse facts and questions about Hillcrest Cemetery. The Friends’ cold for the black is to acquaint the greater association about the actual and cultural acceptation of cemeteries.

“Cemeteries are important actual assets that acquaint about a community’s past,” said Bob Myers of the Friends’ Historic Preservation Committee. “Not alone do the burying places of our ancestors add ability to the area, but they authority admired assets for actual and affiliated research. They are aswell monuments to the humans who already inhabited our communities. For some, their adept amount can be absolutely abstracted and peaceful.”

Each year, the Friends of the Page-Walker present four programs in their Historic Preservation Series.
The events—which are chargeless and accessible to the public—start at 7:30 p.m. and are captivated at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center, 119 Ambassador Loop, on the Town Hall Campus. Light refreshments are served afterward anniversary program. Attendees are encouraged to break to abide the chat and accomplish new friends.

The Historic Preservation Committee meets the aboriginal Wednesday of anniversary ages at 6:00 p.m. at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center. To apprentice more, acquaintance Bob Myers at (919) 254-1476 or bob.myers@friendsofpagewalker.org.

The Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel (www.friendsofpagewalker.org) is an all-volunteer, non-profit, associates alignment whose mission is to adorn the association by confined as a guardian for the Page-Walker Arts and History Center, by advocating canning of Cary actual sites, archiving history and facilitating history education, and announcement cultural arts. For associates information, acquaintance Peggy Van Scoyoc at (919) 461-0443 or president@friendsofpagewalker.org.

MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Englert at (919) 342-0806 or lisa.englert@friendsofpagewalker.org