It’s difficult to imagine the history buried in Rural Cemetery in Worcester, Mass., so let Preservation Worcester recount it for you.
Preservation Worcester started hosting guided tours on October 17 at the cemetery, located at 180 Grove Street. It involves actors recounting the beautiful and sometimes macabre history of all those who call this burial ground their final resting place.
Under the cover of darkness, Preservation Worcester brings back to the life the true and often complicated stories of people like George Bancroft, who founded the United States Naval Academy, or a local pharmacist in the 1800s that killed his family.
This hauntingly beautiful garden cemetery has so much more to offer than what is on the surface.
“My goal is to bring history to life,” Harry Albert, director of the program said. “It’s a grim reality of life, death is. But what I want is to bring forth a project for the Everyman, the folk like myself who hated history in high school and now have an appreciation for it.”
Tickets can be purchased at preservationworcester.org and range from $15 to $20. The dates of the tours are Friday, October 17 and Friday, October 24 with multiple time slots each day. Each tour is scheduled to last approximately an hour. Lanterns will be provided. It would be wise to bundle up — that cold breeze you feel might not be just the weather.
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