The TalkDeath Cemetery Scavenger Hunt encourages people to appreciate and learn about local cemeteries and their histories. It invites community members to visit cemeteries, reducing stigma and demonstrating that cemeteries can be spaces for the living. Participants learn about memorial iconography and history, connect with Read Full Post
Just a reminder that on Halloween Lone Fir cemetery will be closed to the general public beginning at 4pm. We will be beginning the event Tour of Untimely Departures. So, get your visit in early if you plan to stroll the cemetery or visit loved Read Full Post
Featuring an opening filmed in Lone Fir Cemetery, BODY OF EVIDENCE (1993) screens for Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery! All proceeds from this benefit screening go to their work preserving Lone Fir Cemetery and its history and legacy. In BODY OF EVIDENCE, an elderly millionaire Read Full Post
The TalkDeath Cemetery Scavenger Hunt encourages people to appreciate and learn about local cemeteries and their histories. It invites community members to visit cemeteries, reducing stigma and demonstrating that cemeteries can be spaces for the living. Participants learn about memorial iconography and history, connect with Read Full Post
Just a reminder that on Halloween Lone Fir cemetery will be closed to the general public beginning at 4pm. We will be beginning the event Tour of Untimely Departures. So, get your visit in early if you plan to stroll the cemetery or visit loved Read Full Post
Act fast to secure your ticket for 2025’s Tour of Untimely Departures on Halloween Night! Ticket Link
Due to expected high heat, the August Women’s tour on the 23rd will be canceled.
An item we need the most for TUD would be cat food and luminaries. We use the cat food to weigh down the paper bags holding our luminaries that help light the pathways in the cemetery. We typically use nearly 1000 luminaries for the pathways! Read Full Post
Featuring an opening filmed in Lone Fir Cemetery, BODY OF EVIDENCE (1993) screens for Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery! All proceeds from this benefit screening go to their work preserving Lone Fir Cemetery and its history and legacy. In BODY OF EVIDENCE, an elderly millionaire Read Full Post
Well as you would expect we have a new t-shirt for Tour of Untimely Departures and celebrating our 25 year anniversary as Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery! All the years of hard work, joy, education, events, community outreach and headstones scrubbed! We thank you for Read Full Post
Tickets for this year’s Tour of Untimely Departures start on Friday, October 3rd at the link below! Ticket Link
Each year that we do the Tour of Untimely Departures we strive to put on an amazing event. This year is no different but we wanted to ask the public if they were willing to help us with some much needed supplies for its success. Read Full Post
Due to a scheduling conflict, there will be no Nature Journal Club meeting on July 27th.