THE LONG BEACH CEMETERY TOUR

For over 25 years the Historical Society of Long Beach has hosted an annual Cemetery Tour at Halloween. For 7 years, Scott served as an honorary corpse, standing by a gravesite in costume and in character, offering a 15 minute account of that person's life and their influence in the city's history. The re-enactment would reoccur 18 times during that singular day, usually the Saturday prior to Halloween. Well over a thousand people attended each year.

2010-2017

Some Samples:



SCOTT IN ACTION

THE LONG BEACH CEMETERY TOUR

For over 25 years the Historical Society of Long Beach has hosted an annual Cemetery Tour. For 7 years, Scott served as an honorary corpse, standing by a gravesite in costume and in character, offering a 15 minute account of that person's life and their influence in the city's history. The re-enactment would reoccur 18 times during that singular day, usually the Saturday prior to Halloween. Well over a thousand people attended each year.

2010-2017

Some Samples:

 

Glen Clark, Port Manager, involved in 1960s oil scandals

 

Oliver Heartwell, family scion, in front of the family mausoleum explaining that the family does not know who is in there, exactly. He is, though.



Dr. Rhea, beloved, deaf doctor of early Long Beach who died tragically, hit by a trolley, in 1905. His anonymously donated tombstone became the subject of a famous photograph by Ansel Adams. 



William Willmore, the founder of Long Beach who died a mentally broken pauper after all of his backers betrayed him and wrestled his townsite away.

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