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.

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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.

 

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