Talking Spirits

Talking Spirits is an annual cemetery tour sponsored by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison. On the tour, docents lead groups through Forest Hill Cemetery and talk about the artwork and symbolism of the tombstones and the history of the people buried there. In addition, at a number of the burial sites, actors bring that history alive by portraying several of the people buried there. Governors, scientists, soldiers, artists, and others have been featured. Callen Harty wrote and directed the first six years of the tour, which won awards from the Wisconsin Historical Society and the American Association of State and Local History. This volume contains all of the pieces from those first six years.