History of Dates, Themes, Actors, and Characters

Spirits Alive started offering this evening walk in 2007. Thank you to all of our volunteers and patrons!

Walk Among the Shadows I

6 people in hooded costumes pose menacingly in a group with laterns among a dark background

Spectres. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 20, 26 & 27, 2007

Characters

Walk Among the Shadows II

a woman with dark-rimmed sunglasses and wearing a tweed coat and a bright purple scarf touches the top of a brick tomb in Eastern Cemetery

Photo courtesy of Portland Daily Sun

October 29 & 30, 2009

Characters

Walk Among the Shadows III

a woman in a caped costume with a frilly white cap in front of the cemetery's Funeral Lane with golden leafed trees and a dark, but bright, sky

Photo courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 21–23 & 28–30, 2010

Cast of Characters: Portland Playback

Cast of Characters: Acorn Productions

Sidewalk Spirit

Walk Among the Shadows IV: Souls at Sea

man dressed in costume with a suit and gold chain and pork-pie hat with his hand to his chest and looks off to the distant sky

Lemuel Moody. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 27–29, 2011

Cast of Characters: Acorn Productions

Cast of Characters: Portland Players

On Land and at Sea, Portland in the War of 1812

Rhoda Drinkwater. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 18–20 & 25–27, 2012

Cast of Characters

Portland in the Civil War

Julia Bragdon Parsons. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 24–27 & 30–31, 2013

Cast of Characters

Boom & Bust: Ghosts of 1807 Portland

Frederick Hale. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 23–26 and 20–31 2014

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits

The Bombardment of Falmouth 1775

Spectre. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 22–25 & 28–30, 2015

Cast of Characters

Committee of Inspection

The Capture of Captain Mowatt

Floating the Masts

The Ultimatum

The Bombardment of Falmouth

Gatekeeper

Samuel Freeman: Herb Adams

Sidewalk Spirits

Uncanny Tales on the Hill

EC Ghost. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 19–22 and 26–29, 2017

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits

Scandals, Scoundrels, and Sinners

James McGinchy. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 28–21 & 25–28, 2018

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits

The Spirits of 1820, 200 Years of Maine Statehood

John Holmes. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 17–20 & 24–27, 2019

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits

Vices, Voices, & the Vote: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage

Augusta Hunt. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 22 to November 7, 2020 (online)

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits

Specters and Audience

Janet Alexander, Diane Brakeley, Brian Kaczor, Matthew Mueller, Tom O’Hare, Matthew Richardson, Dave Smith, Martha Zimicki

Secret History of Eastern Cemetery: Movers & Shakers in the Old Burial Ground

John Robbins. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 21–24 & 28–31, 2021

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits

Untimely Ends

Lydia Carver. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 20–23 & 27–30, 2022

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits

Portland’s Inferno 1866: Fire and Resurgence

Jedediah Jewett. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 19–22 & 26–29, 2023

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits

The Portland Rum Riot, 1855: Prohibition, Politics, and Protest in Maine

Billy Hans. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 17–20 & 24–27, 2024

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits

The Bombardment of Falmouth, 1775: The 250th Anniversary of Maine’s Baptism by Fire

Dorcas Lewey. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 16–19 & 23–26, 2025

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits

Burial Ground Blues: Misfortunes, Mayhem, and Other Grave Matters

Spectres at the Dead House. Courtesy of Spirits Alive

October 15–18 & 22–25, 2026

Cast of Characters

Sidewalk Spirits