Events
Workdays
Each year volunteers tidy up the cemetery by picking up trash, pruning, planting, and trimming the plants and trees inside. Master gardeners are on hand to train anyone willing to learn about how to work with the plants around the fragile gravestones.
Stone Transcription Project
Spring – Fall
Repairing and photographing every stone in the cemetery is the next phase of this project to start in the spring.
Tours
Summer & Fall
Spirits Alive offers regular tours to visitors who are willing to walk the 6-acre site learning about its part in the history of Portland and those who reside within the gates.
We also conduct evening tours at the end of October with costumed actors who portray the ghosts of people who lived and died in our city.
Lecture Series
Winter
Spirits Alive has sponsored a series of lectures in the winter featuring authors and experts on historic topics related to the cemetery. This series is scheduled to skip 2012 and resume in 2013.