Past Issues of Spirits Alive eNews
Our mostly monthly update to our friends and fans is available to anyone who gets a hankerin' for the past. We sure get them from time to time. Find an index of all Subterranean Celebrities.
- 2024
- October: Walk Among the Shadows 2024, Eastern Cemetery Tours Wrap Up, Rededication at the Eastern Prom 1812 Cemetery, Subterranean Celebrities: 5 Young Ladies – Frances Ingraham, Caroline Isley, Elizabeth Isley, Julia Ann Milliken, and Adeline Knight Thurston
- June: Eastern Cemetery Tours, Conservation, Subterranean Celebrity: Salmon Chase, Esq.
- May: Memorial Day celebration, Tours, Subterranean Celebrity: Captain Thomas J. Montgomery
- April: Gardening Day, Walking Tours Start, Portland Ovations Support, Subterranean Celebrity: John Austin
- March: Lecture series wraps up, Ron Romano at the Library, Subterranean Celebrity: Emily Howell
- February: Lecture series continues with Andy O'Brien, Subterranean Celebrity: Sarah Haskell
- January: Expanding a Peninsula Lecture
- 2023
- September: Tours Continue; Special Tour on Enslavement in Maine; Stone Conservation Update; Subterranean Celebrity: William C. Jameson
- April: First Workday of the Season, Walk Funeral Lane with Us, Become a Stoner (of Conservation), Memorial Day Flag Prep & Tours, Subterranean Celebrity: The Hardings, SA Swag
- March: Lecture Series wraps: Suffrage Road Trip by Ann Gass, Sip a Little Alice Greele (Coffee by Design Spirits Alive series coffee), Volunteer Coordinator Needed, SA Swag
- February: Lecture Series continues: Update on the Wreck of the SS Portland Presented by Herb Adams, Your Chance to Sip Spirits Alive, Volunteer Coordinator Needed, SA Swag
- Late January: Lecture Series continues: Jewish History of Portland, Maine, Coffee by Design Blend Coming, Volunteer Coordinator Needed
- early January: Lecture Series Begins: Arch Street Project, Year-End Review 2022, Volunteer Coordinator Needed
- 2022
- October: Walk Among the Shadows, Desecration of Judge Potter's Grave, Subterranean Celebrity: John Ormsby
- September: Tours, Martha Farewell, Subterranean Celebrities: Charles and Sarah Fogg
- May: Tours, gardening, flagging veteran stones, stone conservation
- February: Lecture series, Black history in Eastern Cemetery, online resources
- January: Online resources, lecture series
- 2021
- October: Walk Among the Shadows, Walking Tours, Dr. John Briggs Honored
- July: John Briggs Celebration, Ross Box Tomb Conservation, Tours, Subterranean Celebrity: George Milner
- May: Tours Season, Moving Remains, Subterranean Celebrity: John Mussey
- April: Upcoming Events (Clean up and flagging), Tours & Conservation Days Again
- March: Maine Centennials with Herb Adams, Subterranean Celebrity: Lieut. William R. Lloyd
- February: Winter Lecture Series continues with Elizabeth DeWolfe and a factory strike, Subterranean Celebrity: Jannette C. Pierre Ruby
- January: Winter Lecture Series, Subterranean Celebrity: John Smith
- 2020
- November: Season in review. Winter lecture series. Subterranean Celebrity: Dr. John Perkins Briggs
- October: Walk Among the Shadows, Tour Eastern Cemetery with Yelp
- June: EC Tour in 12 Stops, Gate Schedule, Update on SA Offerings, What's up with that slope, Billboard book by Ron Romano, Association for Gravestone Studies Goes Zoom, Subterranean Celebrity: Jonathan Tukesbury
- May: Virtual Resources, New Paper on Mortality and Memorialization during Statehood, Subterranean Celebrity: Nancy Dennison
- March: Winter Lecture Series Ends Early (March canceled), Spirits Alive online resources
- February: Winter Lecture Series continues
- January: Winter Lecture Series, PHD Program
- 2019
- November: Thank You! Upcoming Lectures, Veterans Listed Online, Subterranean Celebrity: Francis Ilsley Carr
- October: Walk Among the Shadows, Fall Cleanup Day, Walking Tours, Conservation Finale
- July: Tours, Stone Conservation
- June: Tours and Garden on Saturday, Volunteer opps, Subterranean Celebrity: Elizabeth Bradish Capen Harris
- May: Underground tombs explained, Upcoming events and volunteer opps, Subterranean Celebrity: Eliza Gilkey
- March: Lecture with Tim Gillis: The 1849 Augustus King Riots on Munjoy Hill, Eastern Cemetery & Spritis Alive Photo Collection
- February: Lecture with Elizabeth DeWolfe on Victorian Hair Jewelry, Apply for the PHD Program, Subterranean Celebrities: Charles & Ellen Burns
- January: Lecture with Herb Adams on War of 1812 POW memorial, Apply for the PHD Program, Subterranean Celebrities: William & Ann Louisa Payson Ramsey
- 2018
- December: Year-end wrap-up, Lecture Series, Subterranean Celebrity: Anne Noyes Hale
- October: Walk Among the Shadows, Subterranean Celebrity update: Daniel Manley
- September: Walk Among the Shadows is Back, Walking Tours, Subterranean Celebrity: Capt. Pearl S. Spear
- August: 350th Birthday Events, Walking Tours, Gravestone Conservation, Subterranean Celebrity: Dr. Albus Rea
- July: 350th Birthday Events, Walking Tours, Gravestone Conservation, Subterranean Celebrities: The Billings Brothers
- June: AGS Oakley Award Received, Tours, Conservation, 350th Birthday Events
- May: Tour Season! Learn Stone Conservation! Subterranean Celebrity: Captain David Cook
- April: Celebrating 350 Years, Tours and Volunteer, Subterranean Celebrity: Melville B. Cox
- March: 350 Years of the Eastern Cemetery Talk, Subterranean Celebrity: Deacon William Cotton
- February: Diptheria Lecture, Eastern Cemetery Book, Subterranean Celebrity: Leavitt Children
- January: Hello 2018! Gold Rush Lecture, Eastern Cemetery Book, Subterranean Celebrity: Dr. Aaron Kinsman
- 2017
- October: Walk Among the Shadows, NEW Eastern Cemetery Book!
- September: Books & Talks, Walks, Conservation, Subterranean Celebrity: Mary Gannen
- July: MOCA Meeting, Tours, Conservation Team, Events & Opportunities, Subterranean Celebrity: Elizabeth Lefavor
- June: Tours, Conservation, MOCA Meeting, Events & Opportunities, Subterranean Celebrity: Moses Pearson
- May: Thank You, Gardeners! Upcoming Events, Subterranean Celebrity: Isabella Wildrage
- April: Upcoming Events, Subterranean Celebrity: Eliza Lewis
- March: Off-Peninsula Lifestyle and Architecture Lecture, Subterranean Celebrity: Daniel Mountfort
- February: Preble and Lafayette Lecture, Subterranean Celebrity: John H. Burbank
- January: Year-end wrap-up, Winter Lecture Series, Subterranean Celebrity: Lemuel Dyer
- 2016
- October: Tours until the end of the month, Subterreanean Celebrity: Horatio Noyes
- September: Tours, Stone Conservation, Subterranean Celebrity: Phinehas Jones, Gravestone Book
- July: Bartlett Adams Book Launch Event, Tours, Stone Conservation
- June: Tours, Stone Conservation, Subterranean Celebrity: James, Mary, Dorcas, and Louisa Hopkins
- May: Stone Conservation, Volunteer Thanks, Subterranean Celebrity: Captain Daniel Hubbs
- April: 10 Years of Service, Gardening Day, May Events, Subterranean Celebrity: Thankful Bootman
- March: Burial Customs of the Pilgrims Lecture, Subterranean Celebrity: Fear Thacher Goodwin
- February: Black Jacks: African American Sailors Lecture, Subterranean Celebrity: Christopher Christian Manuel
- January: Salem Witch Trials Lecture, Portland History Docent Program, Subterranean Celebrity: George F. Ropes
- 2015
- November: The year in numbers, winter lecture series, Subterranean Celebrity: Captain John Mussey
- October: Walk Among the Shadows—The Bombardment of Falmouth, 1775
- September: walking tours, last conservation workday, Subterranean Celebrities: Robert and William Hope, Upcoming Events - Bartlett Adams tour/lecture and Walk Among the Shadows
- August: walking tours, conservation days, Subterranean Celebrity: Eunice Osgood
- July: walking tours, conservation days,gardening workday, Subterranean Celebrity: Elizabeth Phillips
- June: walking tours, conservation days,gardening workday, Subterranean Celebrity: John Taber
- May: Pre-season tours, Stone Conservation Workdays, Subterranean Celebrity: Jedediah Jewett.
- April: Spring Workday, MOCA spring meeting, Updated death's head logo, Subterranean Celebrity: The Hows, Earlybird cemetery tours, Bartlett Adams lectures.
- March: Eastern Cemetery and the Revitalization of the India Street Neighborhood: A Panel Discussion, Subterranean Celebrity: The Haskells, The conservation of the Haskell stones.
- February: Causes of Death in Early New England lecture, Subterranean Celebrity: James Bannatyne, The Conservation of James Bannatyne's Headstone
- January late edition: January lecture on mourning practices, PHD program, Annual Meeting highlights, Subterranean Celebrities
- January: 18th & 19th Century New England Mourning Practices Lecture, Bartlett Adams Lectures, Shop with Amazon and Spirits Alive Gets a Donation!
- 2014
- October: Walk Among the Shadows, Subterranean Celebrity: Matthew "King" Cobb, Bartlett Adams Tour, Pecha Kucha Presentation
- August: Summer tours and Trip Advisor, Dead House Renovation, Volunteer Opportunities, Subterranean Celebrity: Francis Martin
- June (and July): Bartlett Adams Tours, Eastern Cemetery Tours, Stone Conservation Workdays, Photo Project, Subterranean Celebrity: Joseph Coffin Boyd
- June: Bartlett Adams Tours, Eastern Cemetery Tours, Stone Conservation Workdays, Photo Project, Subterranean Celebrity: Joseph Coffin Boyd
- May: Upcoming Events & Volunteer Opportunities, Subterranean Celebrity: Sabine Emery, A New Day for Portland Parks & Open Spaces - A Community Conversation
- April: Spring AGS NENE Chapter Meeting, Volunteer Opportunities, Subterranean Celebrity: Martin O'Riley
- March: Portland's Forgotten Cemeteries Roundtable, Subterranean Celebrity: Capt. Thomas Bolton, AGS NENE Regional Meeting, Bartlett Adams Lectures
- February: Lecture on Portland Stonecutter Bartlett Adams, Subterranean Celebrity: Daniel Manley, Portland's Forgotten Cemeteries Roundtable, AGS NENE Regional Meeting
- January: Lecture on New England Gravestones This Month, Portland History Docents Program, Subterranean Celebrity: Cornelius Bramhall
- 2013
- December: Friendships Make Great Stocking Stuffers, Save the Date for the Winter Lectures, Subterranean Celebrity: Thankful Cobb
- October: Walk Among the Shadows, Subterranean Celebrity: Harriet Lewis Fox
- September: Walk Among the Shadows Volunteer Meeting, Eastern Cemetery Tours Continue, Subterranean Celebrity: Grizzy Ross, Grand Trunk Cemetery Blog
- August: 200th Anniversary of the Boxer and the Enterprise, Eastern Cemetery Tours, WATS: Save the Date, Subterranean Celebrities: The Murch Family, Evergreen Workday
- July: Eastern Cemetery Tours, Stone Conservation Workdays, Subterranean Celebrities: Dolly and Margaret Souther
- June: Eastern Cemetery Tours, Stone Conservation Workdays, Subterranean Celebrity: Priscilla Slater
- May: Gardening Workday, Peaks Island Cemetery Visit, Stone Conservation Workdays, Wadsworth Monument Repair, Subterranean Celebrities: Jonathan and Mercy Dow
- 2012
- December: Walk Among the Shadows Wrapup, Cemetery Stone Photography Project, Subterranean Celebrities: Hudson and Sally Bayley
- October: Walk Among the Shadows Halloween Tours, The Eastern Cemetery: A Place in Peril, Subterranean Celebrity: Elizabeth Wendell Quincy Clapp
- September: National Public Lands Day, Fall Tours, Mark Your Calendars for Walk Among the Shadows, Stone Photo Project, Subterranean Celebrity: Cosmo De Sanchez
- July: Stone Conservation Workshop, Summer Tours, Photo Project Kickoff, Subterranean Celebrity: Elihu Gunnison
- June: First 2012 Workday, Summer Tours, Master Plan Approved, Photo Project Kickoff, Subterranean Celebrity: The Phillips Family
- 2011
- October: Walk Among the Shadows IV: Halloween Tours
- August: Special Art & the Elements Tour, Late Summer Tours, Walk Among the Shadows IV: Halloween Tours, Stone Survey Continues, Subterranean Celebrity: Joseph Stockbridge, East Deering Cemetery Rehabilitation
- June: Summer Tours! Unearthing the History of the EC, Portland MGS Workshop and Tour, Norridgewock Cemetery Work, Talk with Ghost Hunters, Waterville Gravestone Meeting
- May: Fence Repairs Completed in the Rain, Girl Scouts Revive Grand Trunk Cemetery, India Street is Our Neighborhood, Genealogists Descend for Workshop, Oxbow Conservation Workshop, Next Workday Coming, Maine Ghost Hunters Meetup, Gravestone Studies Conference, Stone Survey Revelations, Subterranean Celebrity: Thomas Paine
- April: Workdays Are Back, Stone Survey: Year 4 is Here, Subterranean Celebrity: William Reese
- March: Lecture Series Wraps Up, Subterranean Celebrity: Anne Storer
- February: Lecture Series Continues, Subterranean Celebrity: Francis Fessenden
- January: Winter Lecture Series Begins, Subterranean Celebrity: Frederick W.C. Blake
- 2010
- October: Evening Halloween Tours Start This Week, Subterranean Celebrity: Joseph Greenleaf, Spirited Business: Carlson & Turner Antiquarian Books, Team Buries 2010 Stone Survey Project
- September: Walk Among the Shadows is Back! Subterranean Celebrity: Francis Douglas, Stone Survey Project Yields Dirty Fingernails
- August: Tours Continue Inside the Gates, Subterranean Celebrity: Thanks a Lot, George Ballas, Workday Coming in September, October Walk Among the Shadows Night Tours
- July: Take a Tour and Support the EC! Subterranean Celebrities: McLean and Flett, Stone Survey: Here Lies Mouldering, Congress Street Facelift
- June: Workday June 12, Stone Survey: Sacred to the Memory, Summer Tours, Girl Scouts Honor Veterans with Flags
- April: Earth Day Clean Up: April 17, Last Tee Won, Spirited Business: Down Home Cookin´, Subterranean Celebrity: Stephen Longfellow
- March: Free Lecture on March 27, We're Now on Facebook, Spirited Business: Big Sky Bakery, Subterranean Celebrity: The Strangers
- February: Free Lecture on February 27, Spirited Business: Mousse Cafe and Bakeshop, Subterranean Celebrity: Captain Lemuel Moody
- January: Free Lecture Series Starts January 30, Grant Received! Cemetery Celebrity: Reverend Thomas Smith
- 2009
- November: Winter Lecture Series, Master Plan Grant Received, Stoner Saturdays Wrapping Up, Subterranean Celebrity: Mary Stonehouse, Spirited Business: Rogues Gallery
- October: Evening Tours: Walk Among the Shadows Returns, Dig the Eastern Cemetery? Stoner Saturdays Continue, Subterranean Celebrity: Bartlett Adams, Spirits Alive Wants You to Listen to History, Beautiful Day for a Gravestone Dedication
- August: New Codman Gravestone: Celebrate with Us! Media Hit: Observer, Stoner Saturdays, Only 2 Tours Left This Summer! Subterranean Celebrity: James Alden, Spirited Business: Maine Memorial
- June: It's Time to Take a Tour! Stoner Saturdays, Barb & Barry Wow the Rotary, Subterranean Celebrity: Charles Codman, Spirited Business: Shipyard Brewing
- May: Stone Transcription Begins, June Workday, See us at the Bayside Fair! A Poem for the Eastern Cemetery, Vacationland Guide Article, Spirited Business: The North Star
- April: First Workday of the Season, Tours Resume in the Summer, Stone Transcription to Continue, New Headstone for Charles Codman
- News prior to 2009 can be found on our old website's Archive page.