Sponsorships
Please help support Spirits Alive and the Eastern Cemetery!
If you'd like to become a sponsor, email Spirits Alive. A big thank you to our current very generous sponsors! Logos for our corporate sponsors appear on this website, our brochures, and fence banners for our daily walking tours and Walk Among the Shadows event.
Why You Should Like Us
Since 2006, Spirits Alive (an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit) has been dedicated to restoring and preserving Eastern Cemetery while educating the public on its value as part of the city of Portland's historic fabric. Spirits Alive, a group of dedicated volunteers:
- Cleans and repairs historic gravestones according to approved and accepted techniques.
- Performs gardening tasks such as mulching, trimming, and clearing refuse.
- Photographs and gathers physical data and inscriptions from the cemetery's markers.
- Researches stories of the cemetery's residents and the cemetery's evolution.
- Conducts guided cemetery tours.
- Sponsors a 3-part winter lecture series highlighting historic subject matter.
- Advocates for the preservation and maintenance of this valuable open space with the city and community.
Our Most Recent Accomplishments
Spirits Alive:
- Tours were named one of the 5 best cemetery tours in New England by Yankee Magazine
- Distributed 2,000 brochures at events, tours, various tourist attractions, hotels, and the Ocean Gateway
- Created and posted a 10x3' banner for summer tours (June through October) on the cemetery fence at Congress and Washington Streets
- Posted a 10x3' banner in October to promote Walk Among the Shadows (WATS, our evening tour event) on the cemetery fence on Congress and Washington Streets
- Handed out 500 event programs at WATS