Grave Matters and Untimely Departures
Friends of the Fortuna Cemetery District presents the annual production “Grave Matters & Untimely Departures” on Sunday, October 29, beginning at 2 p.m.at Fortuna’s Sunrise Cemetery (above Newburg Park). The last tour (dubbed the “flashlight tour”) leaves at 6:00 p.m. With eight new stories, this year’s “Grave Matters” includes a Fortuna woman murdered by her husband in 1915, a mysterious 1897 suicide, a Pacific Lumber Company worker killed in a 1903 landslide, and a young Fortuna Police Department officer slain in a hit-and-run accident fifty years ago. Directed and researched by Dr. Alexandra Service (curator of the Fortuna Depot Museum), the “Grave Matters” cast includes some of the area’s finest actors, some of them returning for another engagement at Sunrise Cemetery. Tickets for “Grave Matters” are $15 and can be purchased in advance at Green’s Pharmacy (906 Main Street), at Grocery Outlet (Strong’s Creek shopping center, Fortuna) or on the day of the performance at Newburg Park. The first tour begins at 2 p.m. and the final tour will start at 6 p.m. Tours leave every 10 minutes. Each tour runs approximately 50 minutes and will take place rain or shine. Comfortable shoes are encouraged. Parking is available at Newburg Park where a shuttle will transport patrons to and from the cemetery. No vehicles are allowed in the cemetery during the performance. “Every person’s life has stories worth telling,” said Depot Museum curator Service. “Each year when we research our new ‘Grave Matters’ characters, we discover stories with as much adventure, drama, tragedy and mystery as anything Hollywood could dream up.”
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