Tales from the passed

The Dead Tell Tales: Local historian and author Lyn Williams, at right with microphone, during her Hautapu Cemetery tour attended by about 30 people. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

A group of about 30 people attended the Hautapu Cemetery tour on Sunday run by Cambridge Museum and featuring historian and author Lyn Williams.

The Dead Tell Tales event was such a success, the museum is considering other similar activities.

Williams discussed 42 headstones and got sidetracked a couple of times as members of the group spied other interesting graves.

The tour started with the wooden memorial for Third Waikato regiment ensign Donald MacColl and moved onto the magnificent graves of Parepumai Te Whetuiti and Karika Paeahu.

In between the familiar surnames of Hally, Laird, Souter, Dillon, Qualtrough, Buckland, Reynolds and La Trobe were to the fore.

Read: Hail Mary – a woman of controversy

The Hautapu Cemetery tour group. Photo: Michael Jeans

The Dead Tell Tales: Local historian and author Lyn Williams during her Hautapu Cemetery tour. Photo: Mary Anne Gill.

 

More Recent News

Libraries – ‘more than books’

The man helping take Waipā District Libraries’ public services into the age of technology has been nuts about computers since he was about four. Now in his late 20s, Joe Poultney is a self-confessed techno-nerd…

Fears over waste plan

The proposal to build a waste to energy plant in Te Awamutu is the antithesis of all the district stands for, says Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan. O’Regan appeared before an independent Board of Inquiry in…

Five councils take the plunge

Ōtorohanga District Council led the way last week as the first of five councils to decide to hand its drinking and waste water over to a council-controlled water authority. Ōtorohanga councillors voted to join stage…

Brilliant bare necessities

The deft hands of a veterinary surgeon and scientist are the same hands that have crafted the brilliant costumes for the upcoming St Peter’s Catholic School production of The Jungle Book. The three performances in…