WHEN: Saturday, March 5, 2011, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
WHERE: Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME
COST: Free, Donations Appreciated
TOPIC: Evergreen Cemetery Civil War Monument, 1895
Join us as Tom Desjardin, PhD, Chief Historian, Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands will speak on "Civil War Heroes and Heroines Buried in Evergreen Cemetery."
Evergreen Cemetery is 239 acres located on Stevens Avenue. In addition to being the fourth city cemetery, it is a place to birdwatch and see numerous examples of Victorian memorial sculpture, and a experience the beauty of rural cemetery landscape.
Many civil war veterans are part of the over 65,000 interred in this cemetery, and a monument has been erected in their memory.
The last lecture in this series, "Death and Survival in the Civil War," will take place on March 26.
Find out more about the lecture series here:
http://www.spiritsalive.org/events/lectures.htm
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