Robert Campbell hosts “Death Takes A Holiday” Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 6 & 8pm.

Join us for a theatrical presentation by Etc. Senior Theatre featuring some of Bellefontaine Cemetery’s most notable and colorful inhabitants. Spend your Halloween night at Bellefontaine.

Tickets are $8 per person. Please call (314) 495-1713 for reservations.

Carol Ferring Shepley, author of Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes: Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery, will be signing copies of her book Thursday, October 29, 2009.

The signing will take place at the Missouri History Museum at 1:30 p.m. in the Lee Auditorium. Admission to the event is free and books will be available for purchase in the museum’s shop: Louisiana Purchase.

To find out more about this IPPY Award winning book and read an excerpt, click here.

New Civil War Tour Booklet is here! Written by Carol Shepley, this booklet covers 51 participants including union, confederate and civilians. A map will guide you to their locations and new markers have been placed to aid your tour. During the Civil War, 1861-1865, Missouri saw more military action than any state except Virginia and Tennessee. The State reported a total of 1,162 military events. Lying on the border between North and South, loyalties in Missouri were divided so intensely that the State literally had two governments. This self-guided tour booklet is $3 and available at our office, open 365 days a year from 8am-5pm.

The Hotchkiss Chapel renovation was recently completed and we held a Re-dedication Ceremony September 27, celebrating 100 years since the original chapel was built. The renovation preserved much of the chapel’s original woodwork, including the front and side doors, pews and decorative wall sconces. The rear of the chapel is a new columbarium, featuring 665 wooden and glass niches designed to hold cremated remains.