The Dead Guy Project Part 1: Pine Hill Cemetery Exploration

Wednesday, October 18, 1:30-3:00, Pine Hill Cemetery

(rain or shine, meet at Jamison Field playground lot)

This is a two-session commitment on successive DS early release Wednesdays. This Weird Sherborn program is an intergenerational program for grades 6 and up. 

Part 1: Pine Hill Cemetery Exploration: tour parts of our town’s 1850’s rural garden cemetery, hear a few stories, and choose & photograph graves for Part 2!

At the end of the session, participants will be awarded a certificate of research skill recognition!

Required: Camera or phone/camera

Registration required. Registration on session one will automatically extend registration to session 2 the following week. 

Questions? Email qknapp@minlib.net or call 508-653-0770 x3

More about Weird Sherborn’s history coach Kevin Delaney: Longtime Sherborn guy and veteran history teacher. Kevin has bachelor and master degrees in American history, 33 years of high school teaching experience (recently retired), and a dedication to the idea that through local history, careful observers can trace important macro-trends and developments of our past.

More about the Weird Sherborn program: Weird Sherborn is an innovative local “history detectives” program brought to you by the new Sherborn History Center at the Sherborn Public Library. The Sherborn History Center is an evolving collaborative project of the Historical Society and the Library.

A number of Weird Sherborn programs will be offered in the coming months, with a particular acknowledgment of Sherborn’s 350th birthday in 2024. Each session’s objective will be to discover and reveal hidden history stories relating to a range of themes, from life at the Sherborn Women’s Reformatory to life on a typical 19th century Sherborn farm. Sessions will be hands-on, combining field studies with internet research - experience how history is “made” by actually doing it! We expect to release some of our collective findings for public review.