Cemetery Walk/Lantern Tour Fundraiser
The historical society where I serve on the Board of Directors has had the most success in fundraising by putting on an annual “cemetery walk” where we offer a “soup ‘n salad ‘n bread supper”, a tour of the local cemetery with (normally) 6 short dramatic (“living-history” type) “vignettes” based upon events in the lives of our more historically significant “residents” and then an after-tour dessert ‘n coffee venue held in an historic cottage next door to the the cemetery that we also administrate. “The Barbara Bull Memorial Cemetery Walk” has been a sell-out event for every one of our 12 years of existence and the Walk has become the #1 fundraising source for the Western Sonoma County Historical Society (based in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, Northern California) Submitted by Jean F.