TICKETS ON SALE SOON! Stones & Bones Living History Tour at the Wappingers Rural Cemetery
Sat, Oct 03
|Wappingers Rural Cemetery
SAVE THE DATE! Meet some of the "residents" of the Wappingers Rural Cemetery and hear their stories in this guided, costumed living history program.
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2026, 2:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Wappingers Rural Cemetery, 174-208 W Main St, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590, USA
About the event
Save the date! Tickets on sale September 1st. Rain date Sunday, October 4th.
Presented by Dani Masterson in collaboration with the Wappingers Historical Society. In this popular living history tour, you’ll be guided through the Wappingers Rural Cemetery to meet some notable persons buried there and hear their stories. Costumed apparitions include: Ruth Houghton Clapp, founder of the Franklindale Baptist Church; Andrew Jackson, village bricklayer and mason; Victor L. Bracone, village war hero and VFW Post 5913; Dr. James Lenox Banks, physician and philanthropist; Zebulon Phillips, War of 1812 soldier who helped build fortifications along the Hudson River in NYC; Georgina Gurney, Social Studies and History teacher for 36 years; Charles H. LeRoy, apprentice engineer on the Messenger steamship; Dan Brouthers, baseball slugger and Hall of Famer; Elias Brown, owner of the Brown Comb Factory.
Afternoon and evening tour times are 2:00, 2:30 3:15, 6:15, 6:40, 7:00, 7:20. 7:45, 8:00,…