Green Grove Cemetery walk in Ashland on June 4

ASHLAND — The Ashland Historical Society will present an historic cemetery walk in Green Grove Cemetery on Main Street (Routes 3 and 25) opposite the Post Office in Ashland village. This outdoor program in Ashland's main cemetery will begin at 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 4.

Ashland reenactors will speak in the characters of past Ashland residents at four sites in the cemetery. At the first stop, Shannon and Becky Hartley will portray Albert and Abbie Porter. Colonel Thomas and Mary Cheney will next be presented by Bob Baker and Jane Sawyer at their grave site. Then the parents of Warden Curtis, Charles and Hariette Curtis, will talk on their own lives and the life of their son. Lucy Ashland Hughes (Jennifer Hughes) will also remember Warden Curtis. At the GAR monument, David Ruell will explain the monument's history.

Warden Curtis, portrayed by Kendall Hughes, will repeat his 1911 speech dedicating the monument. The dedication ceremony will be partly reenacted by Col. Cheney (Bob Baker) the Woman's Relief Corps (Jeanette Stewart, Becky Hartley, Sue Harville, and Jane Sawyer), Col. Cheney's granddaughter (Leah Hartley), Rev. Newell Avery (John Harville) and bugler Christine Cilley. The free program is open to all.