PEOPLE + PLACE

Preservation Durham presents
Geer Cemetery: Racial Inequities in Cemeteries
Geer Cemetery
Facebook Live & Zoom Virtual Event

Thursday, November 19, 2020

12:00 Noon

Presenter: Debra Taylor Gonzalez-Garcia

Preservation Durham’s People + Place Speaker Series connects the people of Durham with the importance of our historic, architectural and cultural places and the stories they bring to life. 

Join a lively discussion with Debra Taylor Gonzalez-Garcia, President of Friends of Geer Cemetery, as we talk about the history of Geer Cemetery and its creation during Jim Crow. The talk will center around burial inequities from post reconstruction to the early 1900s. We will discuss how we can restore balance and equity in black cemeteries.
 
 
How to Join the Live Stream
https://www.facebook.com/PreservationDurham/
 
Zoom  Webinar Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WqN6nPiYQvuYkb7igYE2SQ

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Halloween Themed
Historic Maplewood Cemetery Tours 
Sun. Nov. 1 @ 10am & 12:30pm
Sat. Nov. 7 @ 10am & 12:30pm
Sun. Nov. 8 @ 10am
Celebrate Durham history and Halloween with a guided tour of Durham’s famous Old Maplewood Cemetery. Preservation Durham tour guides will take small groups around the cemetery pausing here and there to tell stories of triumph and tragedy, joy and sorrow, wealth and poverty, lives long and short. We will talk about war, disease, and maybe even a murder mystery. Learn about funerary traditions and grave art and architecture. All this in what is perhaps Durham’s loveliest urban open space.

 
New Rain Dates for EVERYONE!

 
When: Sun. Nov. 1 at 10am & 12:30pm 
When: Sat. Nov. 7 at 10am & 12:30pm
When: Sun. Nov. 8

Join us for our Historic Maplewood Cemetery Tour where Durham’s early history lingers. This cemetery is a museum of architecture, culture, and art. It is a garden of memories and an eternal city of stone.

Join us for our Historic Maplewood Cemetery Tour where Durham’s early history lingers. This cemetery is a museum of architecture, culture, and art. It is a garden of memories and an eternal city of stone.