Widows Weepers and Wakes - 07/31/2013

Historic site's recurring "Porch Chat" lecture series

A forty-five minute presentation on Nineteenth & early Twentieth Century funeral and mourning customs.  Grant family re-enactors will appear in 1860's and 1880's period mourning dress.  The program will include the history of the undertaking profession, funeral practices & mourning etiquette, memorial art & jewelry.  The porch chat will be given by Melissa Trombley-Prosch, Grant family re-enactor since 1990.  Program research was done in collaboration with Mark Phillips of Burke's Funeral Home.