Decoration Day tour at Island Cemetery

Name: Decoration Day tour at Island Cemetery
Start: 2024-05-26T10:00:00-04:00
Location: Island Cemetery

Schedule

Sun May 26 2024 at 10:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Island Cemetery | Newport, RI

Cemeteries have been important Memorial Day sites since the holiday was created. This tour honors a selected number of people who served our country in the military. Some died while in service, one received the Congressional Medal of Honor, and some fought in multiple wars. While many of the people on the tour served in the Spanish American and Civil Wars, veterans of other military campaigns will be included in the tour.
The tour will be presented by Lew Keen, a state cemetery commissioner and chair of the Newport Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission. He has documented graves in Newport for the state database and is a co-author of Discover Island Cemetery: Notable People and Monuments from the Gilded Age to Modern Times. His website is ripnewport.com
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