Tours & Events
Please join us to learn more about Eastern Cemetery!
Next Event
Eastern Cemetery Clean Up
Saturday, April 27, 9am – 12pm
We help the City by maintaining the shrubbery beds, pruning lower growing trees and shrubs, cutting back or pulling out invasives, cutting grass between headstones and inside family burial plots, and such, too. Please join us to clean up the cemetery after a long winter's nap.
Daniel Bernard Roumain, ECHOES, Stories and Songs Across Time
Saturday, May 11, 3pm – 8pm
Abyssinian Meeting House
A day of community programs and an outdoor public performance at the at the historic Abyssinian Meeting House. FREE, no RSVP needed.
Memorial Day Tours
Monday, May 27, 10am – 2pm
We'll offer free tours of veterans and military grave stones and plots.
Other Events Scheduled Throughout the Year
- Walking Tours - Spring through Fall
- Clean-Up & Gardening - Spring through Fall
Join us as we tidy the cemetery, removing trash, mulching, pruning, and weeding around the gates. We provide tools, gloves, training and a good time! - Winter Lecture Series - January, February, March
Join us to learn about topics related to the history and customs of cemeteries, Maine, and the United States. - Stone Conservation & Preservation - Spring through Fall
Learn to beautify the cemetery's historic stones using proper stone conservation and restoration techniques. - Stone Survey: Photography - Summer through Fall
We are photographing each stone one by one. Wanna help? Read about how it works and follow the steps to get started when you're ready to help out. You set your own schedule (when the gates are open) and work on your own, so you have to be very self-motivated! - Walk Among the Shadows - October
The ghosts of people who died in our city rise in the evening to tell the tales of their extraordinary lives.